{"id":19900,"date":"2018-10-26T08:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19900"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:26:04","slug":"sri-lanka-arrests-top-policeman-over-plot-to-kill-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19900","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka arrests top policeman over &#8216;plot to kill president&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"81.0634146341\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/sri-lanka.html\">Sri Lankan<\/a> police official was arrested on Thursday over a suspected plot to assassinate President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/blogs\/asia\/2015\/01\/100091.html\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/a>, according to a police spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The Criminal Investigation Division of police today arrested Nalaka De Silva after five days of questioning him,&#8221; police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">He added that Silva was accused of plotting to kill the president, several senior police officials and a former defence secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged plot briefly threatened to cause tension between Sri Lanka and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/india.html\">India<\/a>, after an Indian newspaper <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/sri-lankan-president-sirisena-alleges-that-raw-is-plotting-his-assassination\/article25241800.ece\">reported<\/a> that Sirisena had accused India&#8217;s intelligence services of involvement.<\/p>\n<p>New Dehli and Colombo have both denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Silva will be held until November 7, on magistrates&#8217; orders.\u00a0<span>He was arrested after a police informant made the allegations against Silva in a news conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Investigators say they are seeking access to deleted data from the informant&#8217;s mobile phone with the help of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei after a court granted permission to request the company&#8217;s help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Huawei spokesman told Reuters news agency that the company had received no such request from Sri Lanka and Silva&#8217;s lawyers were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Sri Lankan police official was arrested on Thursday over a suspected plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena, according to a police spokesman. &#8220;The Criminal Investigation Division of police today arrested Nalaka De Silva after five days of questioning him,&#8221; police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said. He added that Silva was accused of plotting to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}