{"id":78478,"date":"2023-11-01T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/?p=78478"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:38:29","slug":"dinesh-schaffters-death-is-a-murder-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/2023\/11\/01\/dinesh-schaffters-death-is-a-murder-court\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dinesh Schaffter&#8217;s death is a murder&#8221;: Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Colombo Magistrate&#8217;s Court today concluded that the death of the well-known businessman Dinesh Schaffter resulted from external pressure applied to his neck and facial area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, the magistrate has determined that a crime was committed in this incident and has instructed the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest the suspects involved and present them before the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A committee of five experts, including Judicial Medical Officers, tasked with investigating the actual cause of Mr. Schaffter&#8217;s death, submitted their findings from the post-mortem examinations to the Colombo Additional Magistrate&#8217;s Court on 31October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombo Magistrate&#8217;s Court today concluded that the death of the well-known businessman Dinesh Schaffter resulted from external pressure applied to his neck and facial area. Consequently, the magistrate has determined that a crime was committed in this incident and has instructed the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest the suspects involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":78660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,1346,5,6,8,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-78478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-cid","9":"tag-colombo-magistrates-court","10":"tag-news19","11":"tag-news19-lk","12":"tag-sri-lanka","13":"tag-sri-lanka-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78480,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478\/revisions\/78480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}