{"id":56418,"date":"2012-10-12T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=56418"},"modified":"2016-05-26T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:07:17","slug":"malaka-silva-case-guilty-major-chandana-pradeep-transferred-to-a-shadow-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/malaka-silva-case-guilty-major-chandana-pradeep-transferred-to-a-shadow-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaka Silva Case: &#8220;Guilty&#8221; Major Chandana Pradeep Transferred To A Shadow Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55059\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/19th-amendment-impunity-for-vip-brats\/chandana-pradeep-army-major-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55059\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55059\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-55059\" title=\"Chandana-Pradeep-Army-Major\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Chandana-Pradeep-Army-Major1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Chandana-Pradeep-Army-Major1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Chandana-Pradeep-Army-Major1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The injured Major Chandana Pradeep<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Army Intelligence officer, Major <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandana+Pradeep&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\">Chandana Pradeep<\/a><\/span>, who was found &#8220;guilty&#8221; by the Army\u2019s Court of Inquiry, was transferred from the Military Intelligence Corps yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was transferred to a shadow unit with effect from yesterday,\u201d a senior military official told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has been taken after the investigation report of the Army\u2019s Court of Inquiry, appointed to probe the alleged brawl between the Army Major and a government Minister\u2019s son <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malaka+Silva&amp;x=9&amp;y=9\">Malaka Silva<\/a><\/span> at JAIC Hilton,Colombo, revealed that the Major had provided security to a former casino owner businessman\u00a0Nalin Fonseka\u00a0at the time of the incident using his service weapon unlawfully.\u00a0Major Pradeep was in charge of the Sri Lanka Army\u2019s Colombo-South Intelligence wing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/malaka-and-rehan-were-released-army-major-to-be-charged\/\">Malaka And Rehan Were Released, Army Major To Be Charged !<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/army-major-now-says-malaka-and-rehan-did-not-assault-him\/\">Army Major Now Says Malaka And Rehan Did Not Assault Him<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/assault-on-army-major-police-fail-to-nab-minister-mervyns-criminal-secretaries\/\">Assault On Army Major: Police Fail To Nab Minister Mervyn\u2019s \u2018Criminal\u2019 Secretaries<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/an-army-major-is-hospitalised-mervyn-silvas-son-malaka-silva-has-done-it-again\/\">An Army Major Is Hospitalised; Mervyn Silva\u2019s Son Malaka Silva Has Done It Again<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":55059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[5485,5486,5487,5482,4523,5483,5484],"class_list":["post-56418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-army-intelligence-officer-major-chandana-pradeep","tag-army-intelligence-officer-major-chandana-pradeep-case","tag-former-casino-owner-businessman-nalin-fonseka","tag-major-chandana-pradeep-attack","tag-mervyn-silvas-son-malaka-silva-attacked-army-major","tag-what-happened-to-major-chandana-pradeep","tag-what-happened-to-malaka-silva-attack-case"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Malaka Silva Case: &quot;Guilty&quot; 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