{"id":16436,"date":"2021-12-02T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16436"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:42:09","slug":"state-ministers-coordinating-secretary-arrested-for-transporting-cattle-to-butchery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16436","title":{"rendered":"State Minister\u2019s Coordinating Secretary arrested for transporting cattle to butchery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lunugamvehera Police have arrested a man claiming to be the coordinating secretary of a state minister while transporting 22 cattle stolen from Mattala to a butchery in Bandarawela.<br \/>The Sri Lanka Non-Violence Federation has issued a certificate to the main suspect as the Chairman of a Wildlife Organization in 2020. According to the police, the suspect had used this certificate to transport cattle without legal permission.<br \/>The suspect had been transporting the cattle, indicating that they were transporting cattle purchased from cattle herds in the area.<br \/>The suspect\u2019s attempt to escape arrest by forwarding a letter issued by the Minister of State regarding the release of cattle had failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Hambanthota-2021.12.02-2-1.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Hambanthota-2021.12.02-2-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16438\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-16436' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=16436&amp;comments=1&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='1 Comment'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>1<\/span> Comment<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-16436' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-16436' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-16436' 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-16436'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-16436' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-16436 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunugamvehera Police have arrested a man claiming to be the coordinating secretary of a state minister while transporting 22 cattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16437,"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":[104,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436","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=16436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}