{"id":159,"date":"2026-04-22T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=159"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:24:30","slug":"former-mp-premalal-jayasekara-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/22\/former-mp-premalal-jayasekara-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MP Premalal Jayasekara Granted Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ratnapura District MP Premalal Jayasekara has been released on bail after being arrested for allegedly threatening an individual with a firearm in Nuwara Eliya.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was produced before the Nuwara Eliya Magistrate\u2019s Court today (22), where Magistrate Pushpika Jayadasa ordered his release under strict conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, bail was granted on a cash bail of Rs. 25,000 and two sureties amounting to Rs. 1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered that the case be taken up again on September 14 and directed that the firearm involved be kept under court custody as a case production.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the suspect was instructed to surrender his passport to the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ratnapura District MP Premalal Jayasekara has been released on bail after being arrested for allegedly threatening an individual with a firearm in Nuwara Eliya. The suspect was produced before the Nuwara Eliya Magistrate\u2019s Court today (22), where Magistrate Pushpika Jayadasa ordered his release under strict conditions. Accordingly, bail was granted on a cash bail &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}