{"id":168311,"date":"2016-09-29T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=168311"},"modified":"2016-09-29T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:43:48","slug":"military-intelligence-officer-further-remanded-over-lasantha-wickrematunge-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/military-intelligence-officer-further-remanded-over-lasantha-wickrematunge-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Intelligence Officer Further Remanded Over Lasantha Wickrematunge Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Intelligence Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Premananda+Udalagama&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Premananda Udalagama<\/span><\/a> was further remanded till October 13 by the Mount Lavinia Magistrate in connection to the assassination of Sunday leader Founder Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lasantha+Wickrematunge&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lasantha Wickrematunge<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118210\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118210\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-118210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lasantha Wickrematunge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lasantha_wickramatunga-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lasantha Wickrematunge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Udalagama who was arrested in July by the CID in connection to the Wickrematunge\u2019s assassination was also identified as the culprit who attacked former Editor of the Rivira Newspaper Upali Tennakoon during the same month Wickrematunge was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Udalagama has also been identified as the person who abducted Dias, Wickrematunge\u2019s driver after the editor\u2019s death. It is reported that Udalagama had kidnapped Dias because Dias in his intoxicated state had gone around making allegations that former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was behind the assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Wickrematunge\u2019s remains were exhumed this week following a court order after the CID informed that there were inconsistencies in the autopsy report issued by the then JMO. The fresh autopsy is expected to take about a month to complete. Wickrematunge was assassinated while on his way to work in January 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":118210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Military Intelligence Officer Further Remanded Over Lasantha Wickrematunge Assassination - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/military-intelligence-officer-further-remanded-over-lasantha-wickrematunge-assassination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Military Intelligence Officer Further Remanded Over Lasantha Wickrematunge Assassination - 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