{"id":28289,"date":"2025-06-20T20:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28289"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:57:25","slug":"former-minister-chandrani-bandara-to-face-trial-on-july-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28289","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister Chandrani Bandara to Face Trial on July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Colombo High Court has set July 18 as the date for the trial of former Minister Chandrani Bandara, who faces serious corruption charges linked to her time in office during the Yahapalana administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bandara, who held the portfolio of Women, Child Affairs, and Dry Zone Development, has been indicted on 11 counts, including allegations of abuse of power and irregular appointments. The charges stem from claims that she misused her position to install close associates in key ministry roles, bypassing established public service procedures.<\/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-28289' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28289&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-28289' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28289' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28289' 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-28289'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28289' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28289 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombo High Court has set July 18 as the date for the trial of former Minister Chandrani Bandara, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28290,"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":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28289","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28291,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28289\/revisions\/28291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}