{"id":13714,"date":"2021-04-17T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13714"},"modified":"2021-04-17T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T12:06:48","slug":"deraniyagala-ps-chairman-remanded-for-stealing-water-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13714","title":{"rendered":"Deraniyagala PS Chairman remanded for stealing water meters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chairman of Deraniyagala Pradeshiya Sabha, who was taken into custody over illegal possession of 98 stolen water meters was produced before Avissawella Magistrate\u2019s Court under the provisions of the Offences against Public Property Act today (17th) and was remanded until the 19th of April.<br \/>Deraniyagala Police had received a complaint regarding the theft of 477 water meters and other equipment from the National Water Supply &amp; Drainage Board (NWSDB).<br \/>The complaint had been lodged by an engineer who is working on a project carried out by the NWSDB.<br \/>Subsequently, the Deraniyagala Police initiated investigations into the matter and arrested a clerk and a driver attached to the project.<br \/>Upon further investigating the incident it was revealed that the chairman was in possession of 98 water meters stolen from the store. The police officers managed to recover 98 stolen water meters.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13714' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13714&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13714' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13714' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13714' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13714'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13714' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13714 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Deraniyagala Pradeshiya Sabha, who was taken into custody over illegal possession of 98 stolen water meters was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}