{"id":61027,"date":"2018-10-07T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61027"},"modified":"2018-10-09T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T06:59:00","slug":"ex-state-minister-and-unp-jaffna-district-mp-vijayakala-maheswaran-arrested-over-her-controversial-statement-about-ltte-revival-in-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61027","title":{"rendered":"Ex-State Minister and UNP Jaffna District MP Vijayakala Maheswaran Arrested Over Her Controversial  Statement About LTTE Revival in North."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United National Party Jaffna district  Parliamentarian  and former state minister of Child Affairs  Vijayakala Maheswaran was arrested today by the Police Organised Crimes Preventive Division in connection with a controversial statement she made recently on the resurgence of the LTTE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said she had been summoned to the Police Organised Crimes Preventive Division to record a statement this morning (Oct 8) after which  she was arrested.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He said she would be produced in the Colombo Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court today (Oct 8).<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General previously gave the green light to the Police on filing legal action against the Parliamentarian as there was a criminal element in her statement. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a state event in Jaffna, Maheswaran said the LTTE should be revived to ensure the well-being of Tamils in the North. <\/p>\n<p>She made this remark while the LTTE was still a banned terrorist organization in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61027\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61027&amp;text=Ex-State%20Minister%20and%20UNP%20Jaffna%20District%20MP%20Vijayakala%20Maheswaran%20Arrested%20Over%20Her%20Controversial%20%20Statement...%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>United National Party Jaffna district Parliamentarian and former state minister of Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran was arrested today by the Police Organised Crimes Preventive Division in connection with a controversial statement she made recently on the resurgence of the LTTE. Police spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said she had been summoned to the Police Organised Crimes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ex-State Minister and UNP Jaffna District MP Vijayakala Maheswaran Arrested Over Her Controversial  Statement About LTTE Revival in North.&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\/61027"}],"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=61027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61028,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027\/revisions\/61028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}