{"id":2426,"date":"2024-12-06T23:08:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2024-12-06T23:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T17:38:23","slug":"lohan-ratwatte-arrested-over-drunk-driving-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"Lohan Ratwatte arrested over drunk driving accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Minister Lohan Ratwatte, who was released on bail yesterday, has been arrested at Kollupitiya following a traffic accident.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the former state minister was arrested due to driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>A Land Rover Defender driven by the former parliamentarian had collided with a car in the Kollupitiya area while he was driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Lohan Ratwatte and his wife Shashi Prabha Ratwatte were granted bail yesterday (05) by the Nugegoda Magistrate\u2019s Court, following their arrest over charges of using a luxury car illegally imported and assembled in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the court had ordered them released on a cash bail of Rs. 25,000 each and two personal bonds of Rs. 1 million each. The court also issued an overseas travel ban on Ratwatte.<\/p>\n<p>Police had found the luxury car in question during an inspection carried out based on information received by the police headquarters regarding a luxury car without number plates at a three-storied house in the Embuldeniya area in Mirihana, belonging to Shashi Prabha Ratwatte, the wife of former State Minister Lohan Ratwatte.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, both Ratwatte and his wife had explained to the police that his mother-in-law resides in the said house. They had claimed that the car had been brought there a while back by Ratwatte\u2019s private secretary, who was recently found dead with gunshot injuries in the Katugastota area of Kandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Minister Lohan Ratwatte, who was released on bail yesterday, has been arrested at Kollupitiya following a traffic accident. 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