{"id":161130,"date":"2016-04-22T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T09:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=161130"},"modified":"2016-04-22T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T09:03:27","slug":"suspicious-person-near-mrs-office-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/suspicious-person-near-mrs-office-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious Person Near MR\u2019s Office Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person who was behaving suspiciously near the Battaramulla office of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>, was arrested a short while ago and handed over to the Thalangama police.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_136324\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/electoral-authoritarianism-and-fraudulent-elections\/mahinda-pic-sudath-silva-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136324\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-136324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-pic-Sudath-Silva1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda Rajapaksa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-pic-Sudath-Silva1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-pic-Sudath-Silva1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-136324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The person had been loitering around the former\u2019s President\u2019s office for a while and had been acting suspiciously. He was arrested by the ex-President\u2019s security division.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, former President Rajapaksa had claimed that at several instances suspicious people have been loitering around his home. At the joint opposition rally held in Hyde Park in March, Rajapaksa said that a group of unidentified persons who had come in bikes had been inquiring from the neighborhood if he (Rajapaksa) was home.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Rajapaksa has a security detail of 256 personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":157725,"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-161130","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>Suspicious Person Near MR\u2019s Office Arrested - 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\/suspicious-person-near-mrs-office-arrested\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suspicious Person Near MR\u2019s Office Arrested - 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