{"id":149117,"date":"2025-04-16T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149117"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:51:08","slug":"governments-efforts-to-implicate-pillayan-in-easter-attacks-failed-gammanpila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/04\/16\/governments-efforts-to-implicate-pillayan-in-easter-attacks-failed-gammanpila\/","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT&#8217;S EFFORTS TO IMPLICATE PILLAYAN IN EASTER ATTACKS FAILED &#8211; GAMMANPILA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Niru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government&#8217;s efforts to create a perception that Sivanesathurai Santhirakanthan, alias Pillayan, is involved in the Easter attacks have failed, says former parliamentarian Udaya Gammanpila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated this at a media briefing today (16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former State Minister Chandrakanthan was arrested on the 8th of this month, pertaining to investigations into the abduction and disappearance of Professor Sivasubramaniam Ravindranath, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Eastern University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrest comes 18 years after the alleged abduction, which is said to have occurred on December 15, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pillayan, who was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), is currently being held in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department on a 90-day detention order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney-at-Law Gammanpila met with Pillayan and held discussions for half an hour yesterday (15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niru News The government&#8217;s efforts to create a perception that Sivanesathurai Santhirakanthan, alias Pillayan, is involved in the Easter attacks have failed, says former parliamentarian Udaya Gammanpila. He stated this at a media briefing today (16). Former State Minister Chandrakanthan was arrested on the 8th of this month, pertaining to investigations into the abduction and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149117","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=149117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}