{"id":68463,"date":"2020-04-16T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=68463"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:52:26","slug":"bar-association-of-sri-lanka-writes-to-acting-igp-expressing-concern-over-the-well-being-of-attorney-at-law-hejaz-hizbullah-arrested-by-the-cidrequests-igp-to-inform-the-basl-of-basis-and-reasons-fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=68463","title":{"rendered":"Bar Association of Sri Lanka Writes to Acting IGP Expressing Concern Over the  well-being of Attorney-at-law Hejaz Hizbullah Arrested by the CID;Requests IGP to Inform the BASL of Basis and Reasons for Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nThe Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday expressed concern about the well-being of attorney-at-law Hejaz Hizbullah, who has been taken into custody by the CID, allegedly over his links to the Easter Sunday bombers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u201cAccording to (the) information we have received, the reasons for his arrest have not been made known till now. We are informed the arrest was based on certain functions attended by Mr. Hizbullah in his professional capacity, as a member of the Bar,\u201d BASL President Kalinga Indatisssa PC said in a letter he sent the Inspector General of Police (IGP).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The letter added that while BASL has no intention of disturbing any pending investigations that is being conducted lawfully by the authorities, the BASL is concerned about the well-being of Mr. Hizbullah. <\/p>\n<p>BarThe BASL President requested the IGP to direct the investigating officers to ensure that the professional rights of the attorney are given due consideration, and that the BASL is informed of the reasons and basis of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton68463\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D68463&amp;text=Bar%20Association%20of%20Sri%20Lanka%20Writes%20to%20Acting%20IGP%20Expressing%20Concern%20Over%20the%20%20well-being%20of%20Attorney-at-law...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday expressed concern about the well-being of attorney-at-law Hejaz Hizbullah, who has been taken into custody by the CID, allegedly over his links to the Easter Sunday bombers. \u201cAccording to (the) information we have received, the reasons for his arrest have not been made known till now. We &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=68463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Bar Association of Sri Lanka Writes to Acting IGP Expressing Concern Over the  well-being of Attorney-at-law Hejaz Hizbullah Arrested by the CID;Requests IGP to Inform the BASL of Basis and Reasons for Arrest&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68464,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463\/revisions\/68464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}