{"id":311773,"date":"2019-04-30T07:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311773"},"modified":"2019-04-30T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:44:49","slug":"ness-wadia-sentenced-in-japan-over-drugs-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ness-wadia-sentenced-in-japan-over-drugs-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Ness Wadia sentenced in Japan over drugs possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311774 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ness-wadia-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/ness-wadia-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/ness-wadia.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ness Wadia, business tycoon and heir of the Wadia Group, has been sentenced to a two-year jail term in Japan over possession of drugs while on a skiing holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The co-owner of the Kings XI Punjab cricket team was arrested in early March at New Chitose Airport in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a report, Ness Wadia was found in possession of 25 grams of cannabis resin in his trouser pocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wadia had allegedly admitted to the possession of drugs, saying it was for his personal consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wadia spent a period in detention before his indictment on March 20 and an undisclosed period of detention before a court hearing, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sapporo District Court handed him a two-year prison sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ness Wadia, business tycoon and heir of the Wadia Group, has been sentenced to a two-year jail term in Japan over possession of drugs while on a skiing holiday. The co-owner of the Kings XI Punjab cricket team was arrested in early March at New Chitose Airport in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[2507,11302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311775,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311773\/revisions\/311775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}