{"id":1035,"date":"2026-05-09T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:49:55","slug":"batticaloa-restaurant-fined-rs-500000-for-overpricing-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/09\/batticaloa-restaurant-fined-rs-500000-for-overpricing-bottled-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Batticaloa Restaurant Fined Rs. 500,000 for Overpricing Bottled Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular restaurant located in Batticaloa has been fined 500,000 rupees by the Batticaloa Magistrate\u2019s Court yesterday (2026.05.08) for selling a 500ml bottled drinking water priced at 70 rupees for 100 rupees.<\/p>\n<p>The violation was discovered during a raid conducted by officials of the Consumer Affairs Authority in the Batticaloa District.<\/p>\n<p>Following the inspection, the authorities filed a case before the Magistrate\u2019s Court yesterday (08). After the establishment admitted to the offence, the court imposed the 500,000 rupee fine against the restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular restaurant located in Batticaloa has been fined 500,000 rupees by the Batticaloa Magistrate\u2019s Court yesterday (2026.05.08) for selling a 500ml bottled drinking water priced at 70 rupees for 100 rupees. The violation was discovered during a raid conducted by officials of the Consumer Affairs Authority in the Batticaloa District. Following the inspection, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}