{"id":74347,"date":"2021-09-23T00:27:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=74347"},"modified":"2021-09-23T22:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T03:27:55","slug":"tamil-congress-mp-selvrajah-kajenthiran-and-two-others-arrested-in-jaffna-under-quarantine-laws-for-memorialising-former-ltte-stalwart-thileepan-video-footage-of-tarrest-shows-police-manhandling-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=74347","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Congress MP Selvrajah Kajenthiran and Two Others Arrested  in Jaffna Under Quarantine Laws for Memorialising Former LTTE Stalwart Thileepan; Video footage of tarrest shows Police manhandling and shoving the MP into a Police vehicle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Azzam Ameen and Ruwani Fonseka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahila Ilankai Thamil Congress (AITC) MP Selvarajah Kajendren was arrested by the Jaffna Police today (23) while he was attending a memorial held for Rasaiah Parthipan, commonly known as \u2018Thileepan\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Thileepan was a Tamil Eelam revolutionary and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).<\/p>\n<p>Video footage circulating of the arrest showed Police manhandling and shoving the MP into a Police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Morning, Police Spokesperson SSP Nihal Thalduwa stated that Kajendren was arrested along with two others for breaching quarantine laws while attending the memorial.<\/p>\n<p>According to Thalduwa, Kajendren may face a fine of up to Rs. 10,000 and potential jail time for this offence, if proven guilty by a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) MP M.A Sumanthiran condemned Kajendren\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI condemn the arrest of Selvarajah Kajenthiran, MP in Jaffna today while exercising his right to memorialisation ,\u201d the MP stated in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Morning<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton74347\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D74347&amp;text=Tamil%20Congress%20MP%20Selvrajah%20Kajenthiran%20and%20Two%20Others%20Arrested%20%20in%20Jaffna%20Under%20Quarantine%20Laws%20for...%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 Azzam Ameen and Ruwani Fonseka Ahila Ilankai Thamil Congress (AITC) MP Selvarajah Kajendren was arrested by the Jaffna Police today (23) while he was attending a memorial held for Rasaiah Parthipan, commonly known as \u2018Thileepan\u2019. Thileepan was a Tamil Eelam revolutionary and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Video footage circulating &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=74347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Tamil Congress MP Selvrajah Kajenthiran and Two Others Arrested  in Jaffna Under Quarantine Laws for Memorialising Former LTTE Stalwart Thileepan; Video footage of tarrest shows Police manhandling and shoving the MP into a Police vehicle.&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\/74347"}],"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=74347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74349,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347\/revisions\/74349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}