{"id":10328,"date":"2021-01-11T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10328"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:23:09","slug":"ag-decides-to-drop-case-against-pillayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/ag-decides-to-drop-case-against-pillayan\/","title":{"rendered":"AG decides to drop case against Pillayan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Attorney General\u2019s Department (AG) has decided to drop the case against Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan in connection to the murder of former Parliamentarian Joseph Pararajasingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AG\u2019s Coordinating Officer Nishara Jayaratne told Colombo Gazette that the AG\u2019s Department has informed the Batticaloa High Court of its decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MP Pillayan who was imprisoned over the murder was granted bail in November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Pararajasingham was shot dead in December 2005 at St. Mary\u2019s co-cathedral church in the Batticaloa town while attending Christmas prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MP\u2019s wife, Mrs. Sugunam Pararajasingham sustained serious injuries in the gunfire while several others were also injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pillayan was part of the Karuna Amman led Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP) at the time Pararajasingham was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is currently a Member of Parliament and the Batticaloa District Coordinating Committee (DCC) Co-Chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Department (AG) has decided to drop the case against Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}