{"id":75337,"date":"2021-12-12T01:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=75337"},"modified":"2021-12-12T23:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T03:44:41","slug":"foul-mouthed-gnanasara-thero-facing-charges-of-denigrating-the-islamic-faith-and-holy-quran-released-by-colombo-chief-magistrate-buddhika-sri-ragala-after-police-informed-court-that-attorney-genera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=75337","title":{"rendered":"Foul-mouthed Gnanasara Thero  Facing Charges of Denigrating the Islamic Faith and Holy  Quran  Released by Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala After Police Informed Court that Attorney-General Sanjay Rajaratnam  Had  Advised Release of BBS Gen-Secy from Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy Hansi Nanayakkara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala, on the advice of Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, on Friday (10), released Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary and head of the Presidential Task Force on One Country, One Law, Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera, from the case where he had been charged with denigrating the Islamic faith and the Holy Quran.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the case was taken up, the Organised Crimes Detection Bureau (OCDB) told the Magistrate that the AG had advised them to release Gnanasara Thera from the case.<\/p>\n<p>The OCDB had filed the case against the BBS General following a complaint by then UNP MP Mujibur Rahman that Gnanasara Thera had expressed views that had disparaged the Islamic faith and Holy Quran, during two rallies held in Polonnaruwa on 6 May four years ago.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Ceylon Today<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton75337\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D75337&amp;text=Foul-mouthed%20Gnanasara%20Thero%20%20Facing%20Charges%20of%20Denigrating%20the%20Islamic%20Faith%20and%20Holy%20%20Quran%20%20Released%20by...%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>By Hansi Nanayakkara Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala, on the advice of Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, on Friday (10), released Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary and head of the Presidential Task Force on One Country, One Law, Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera, from the case where he had been charged with denigrating the Islamic &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=75337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Foul-mouthed Gnanasara Thero  Facing Charges of Denigrating the Islamic Faith and Holy  Quran  Released by Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala After Police Informed Court that Attorney-General Sanjay Rajaratnam  Had  Advised Release of BBS Gen-Secy from Case&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\/75337"}],"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=75337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75338,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75337\/revisions\/75338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}