{"id":133364,"date":"2023-03-30T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133364"},"modified":"2023-03-30T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:37:11","slug":"dig-nalaka-silva-who-was-arrested-and-imprisoned-for-plotting-to-kill-gota-and-maitri-has-been-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/30\/dig-nalaka-silva-who-was-arrested-and-imprisoned-for-plotting-to-kill-gota-and-maitri-has-been-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"DIG Nalaka Silva, who was arrested and imprisoned for plotting to kill Gota and Maitri, has been reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former DIG Nalaka Silva, who was arrested on charges of conspiring to assassinate former presidents Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been reinstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police department sources said that he has been appointed as the DIG in charge of Puttalam area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DIG Nalaka Silva, who was in charge of the Terrorist Investigation Division at the time, was arrested in 2018 based on a complaint made by a person called Namal Kumara that there was a conspiracy to assassinate the two former presidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former DIG Nalaka Silva, who was arrested on charges of conspiring to assassinate former presidents Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been reinstated. Police department sources said that he has been appointed as the DIG in charge of Puttalam area. DIG Nalaka Silva, who was in charge of the Terrorist Investigation Division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}