{"id":54971,"date":"2019-02-14T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54971"},"modified":"2019-02-14T11:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:18:56","slug":"indian-national-on-lanka-assassination-plot-further-remanded-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indian-national-on-lanka-assassination-plot-further-remanded-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian national on Lanka assassination plot further remanded in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Indian national arrested for possible links to an alleged plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena was on Wednesday further remanded in custody until February 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marceli Thomas was arrested in October following a complaint by Namal Kumara, a police informant, who had alleged a plot to assassinate Sirisena and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the former top defence ministry bureaucrat and brother of ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kumara also claimed that the senior police officer in charge of the police\u2019s counter-terrorism division Nalaka Silva had masterminded the plot. Silva has since been interdicted and questioned extensively by the police CID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police maintained although no details had emerged on the alleged plot to kill Sirisena, Silva had been arrested for plotting the murder of a police officer. <br>\nThomas, said to be from Kerala, appeared before a court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The alleged assassination plot and Wickremesinghe government\u2019s go slow on the investigation was cited by Sirisena as one of the reasons for his sacking of Wickremesinghe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian national arrested for possible links to an alleged plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena was on Wednesday further remanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54973,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54971\/revisions\/54973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}