Former Head of the TID, DIG Nalaka Silva has been arrested by the CID, a short while ago, over an alleged assassination plot on President Maithripala Sirisena. 

Silva was arrested by the CID after questioning him for five days, for nearly thirty hours. 

The arrest was made two days after the Government Analyst has informed the court that 123 out of 124 voice clips under investigation matched with the voice samples obtained from DIG Nalaka Silva and Namal Kumara. 

The Government Analyst carried out investigations into the telephone records of an alleged conspiracy to assassinate President Sirisena.