{"id":25261,"date":"2024-06-01T20:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2024-06-01T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T14:40:07","slug":"gota-caught-in-elephant-stealing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=25261","title":{"rendered":"Gota caught in elephant stealing again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court has ordered immediate prosecution against several persons, including Gotabaya Rajapaksa and a well-known Bhikkhu, who were illegally in possession of elephants.<br \/>A bench of judges has given this order after considering a petition submitted by several environmental organizations to the Court of Appeal. It was stated before the court that Gotabaya and others had committed a criminal offence under the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance.<br \/>However, a Magistrate&#8217;s Court dismissed the petitions against Gotabaya and others. Yesterday (31), the court made the order after considering a writ petition submitted to the Court of Appeal against the Magistrate&#8217;s Court&#8217;s decision.<\/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-25261' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=25261&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-25261' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-25261' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-25261' 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-25261'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-25261' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-25261 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court has ordered immediate prosecution against several persons, including Gotabaya Rajapaksa and a well-known Bhikkhu, who were illegally in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[106,104,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-environment","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","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=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25264,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions\/25264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}