{"id":8261,"date":"2020-02-26T05:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2020-02-26T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:12:05","slug":"indian-national-arrested-for-sending-sms-messages-on-a-plot-to-assassinate-president-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/indian-national-arrested-for-sending-sms-messages-on-a-plot-to-assassinate-president-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian national arrested for sending SMS messages on a plot to assassinate President, PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An Indian national named Mersalin Thomas has been arrested after he sent an SMS to the Chief Inspector of Police, Mirihana, alleging a conspiracy to assassinate President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, a senior police official has said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Police official said the arrested Indian national is the same person arrested and acquitted last year for claiming of a conspiracy to assassinate the then President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, according to local Sinhala daily Lankadeepa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The suspect is currently detained in the Mirihana Detention Center after being convicted of staying in the country without a valid visa,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested Thomas on 26 September 2018 based on the claims made by a police informant named Namal Kumara, who revealed the alleged assassination plot. Thomas was remanded following his arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Colombo Fort Magistrate&#8217;s Court on 27 February 2019 acquitted Mersalin Thomas of the charges of conspiring to assassinate the VIPs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian national named Mersalin Thomas has been arrested after he sent an SMS&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","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=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}