{"id":388,"date":"2026-04-27T03:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=388"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:52:46","slug":"court-orders-detention-of-monks-arrested-with-narcotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/27\/court-orders-detention-of-monks-arrested-with-narcotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Detention of Monks Arrested with Narcotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court has granted permission to detain and question <strong>22 monks<\/strong> arrested with a large quantity of narcotics valued at over <strong>Rs. 1.1 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were produced before the Negombo Magistrate\u2019s Court today (26), where Additional Magistrate Subani Abeysekara ordered that they be held in detention for <strong>7 days<\/strong> for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the alleged main suspect who is said to have organized and directed the group was also arrested today in the Meegahamullla area of Gampaha by the Police Narcotics Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations into the case are currently underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court has granted permission to detain and question 22 monks arrested with a large quantity of narcotics valued at over Rs. 1.1 billion. The suspects were produced before the Negombo Magistrate\u2019s Court today (26), where Additional Magistrate Subani Abeysekara ordered that they be held in detention for 7 days for further investigations. Meanwhile, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","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\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}