{"id":60911,"date":"2018-09-26T20:35:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=60911"},"modified":"2018-09-26T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T00:35:39","slug":"arrested-indian-national-mercil-thomas-has-not-told-police-about-any-plot-ti-assassinate-president-sirisena-or-ex-president-ajapaksa-says-police-spokesman-ruwan-gunasekara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=60911","title":{"rendered":"Arrested Indian National Mercil Thomas Has Not Told Police About Any Plot ti Assassinate President Sirisena or Ex-president ajapaksa says Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Thilanka Kanakarathna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara today said the Indian national had not revealed any assassination plot to the CID on President Maithripala Sirisena and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa but had only spoken of a threat to several individuals following the revelation by Anti Corruption Movement\u2019s Director Operations Namal Kumara on assassination plot.<\/p>\n<p>He told a news conference that the CID in its B-report filed in the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court on Tuesday had not mentioned anything about an assassination plot revealed by the Indian national.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>SP Gunasekara said that the Indian National Mercil Thomas had been arrested by the CID on September 21 on information received by Anti Corruption Movement\u2019s Director Operations Namal Kumara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing the suspect had revealed was that he felt about a threat to several individuals after disclosing the video and audio clip of a telephone conversation by Namal Kumara at a press conference and the media reports on the incident. The suspect had said to the CID officers that he visited Namal\u2019s residence to inquire about it,\u201d SP Gunasekara added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Indian national had arrived in Sri Lanka in January 2017 and added that he had stayed in several places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it was yet to reveal how and from whom he received funds. CID is conducting further investigations on a detention order,\u2019 he said. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton60911\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D60911&amp;text=Arrested%20Indian%20National%20Mercil%20Thomas%20Has%20Not%20Told%20Police%20About%20Any%20Plot%20ti%20Assassinate%20President%20Sirisena%20or...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thilanka Kanakarathna Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara today said the Indian national had not revealed any assassination plot to the CID on President Maithripala Sirisena and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa but had only spoken of a threat to several individuals following the revelation by Anti Corruption Movement\u2019s Director Operations Namal Kumara on assassination plot. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=60911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Arrested Indian National Mercil Thomas Has Not Told Police About Any Plot ti Assassinate President Sirisena or Ex-president ajapaksa says Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60912,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60911\/revisions\/60912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}