Marceli Thomas an Indian national and former DIG Nalaka De Silva who were arrested over alleged involvement in a VIP assassination attempt have been further remanded until December 11.
The case was taken up before Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake.
The former Director of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) was arrested by the CID on October 25 over a suspected plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
He was arrested after informant Namal Kumara, made the allegations against Silva at a news conference.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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