{"id":9437,"date":"2020-08-01T05:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2020-08-01T05:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:06:55","slug":"former-mp-premalal-jayasekara-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/former-mp-premalal-jayasekara-sentenced-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MP Premalal Jayasekara sentenced to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">SLPP candidate and former MP Premalal Jayasekara and two others have been sentenced to death over the fatal shooting incident in Kahawatte during the Presidential Election in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council member Nilantha Jayakody and former Kahawatta Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Vajira Darshana have also been sentenced to death over the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The verdict in the case was delivered today (July 31) by the Ratnapura High Court, Ada Derana reporter said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The shooting took place on the morning of January 05, 2015 and resulted in the death of a political supporter who was decorating an election stage of then Common Candidate of the presidential election Maithripala Sirisena in Kahawatta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The UNP supporter, who was engaged in decorating an election stage, was wounded in the shooting and succumbed to injuries in hospital on January 8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Pelmadulla Magistrate had issued arrest warrants on the suspects involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Deputy Minister Premalal Jayasekara was arrested on January 10 over the election-related shooting incident while he had been released on bail on December 07, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Sabaragamuwa Provincial Councilor Nilantha Jayakody and former Kahawatta Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Vajira Darshana had also been arrested over the shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jayasekara, also known as \u2018Choka Malli\u2019, is contesting the coming parliamentary election from the Ratnapura District under the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLPP candidate and former MP Premalal Jayasekara and two others have been sentenced to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437","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=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}