{"id":48205,"date":"2016-09-02T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48205"},"modified":"2016-09-02T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:39:08","slug":"porter-in-pettah-and-worker-in-peliyagoda-fish-market-arrested-over-murder-of-businessman-sulaimanthree-more-arrests-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48205","title":{"rendered":"Porter in Pettah and Worker in Peliyagoda Fish Market Arrested over Murder of Businessman Sulaiman:Three more Arrests Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Norman Palihawadana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colombo Crime Division yesterday arrested two suspects wanted in connection with the kidnapping and killing of multi-millionaire textile businessman Mohamed Sakeeb Sulaiman.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the two suspects aged 22 and 23 had demanded a ransom of Rs. 20 million from the father of the victim, two days after the kidnapping, even though the victim had died soon after the abduction in a scuffle with his kidnappers who struck him with a blunt weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are a porter working in Pettah and a worker at the fish market at Peliyagoda.<\/p>\n<p>According to CCD officers the arrest of three more suspects was imminent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sulaiman (29) was kidnapped near his home at Kotalawala Avenue, Bambalapitiya on the night of Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p>His body was found on the slope of a hillock at Rukulagama, Mawanella.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects arrested yesterday had apparently been identified by police from CCTV footage obtained from a place in Kegalla town, from where they called the victim\u2019s father demanding Rs. 20 million to release his son.<\/p>\n<p>The police have also questioned the manager and the staff of the victim\u2019s textile shop.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton48205\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D48205&amp;text=Porter%20in%20Pettah%20and%20Worker%20in%20Peliyagoda%20Fish%20Market%20Arrested%20over%20Murder%20of%20Businessman%20Sulaiman%3AThree%20more...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Norman Palihawadana The Colombo Crime Division yesterday arrested two suspects wanted in connection with the kidnapping and killing of multi-millionaire textile businessman Mohamed Sakeeb Sulaiman. The police said that the two suspects aged 22 and 23 had demanded a ransom of Rs. 20 million from the father of the victim, two days after the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Porter in Pettah and Worker in Peliyagoda Fish Market Arrested over Murder of Businessman Sulaiman:Three more Arrests Imminent&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48206,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48205\/revisions\/48206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}