8 February 2010 04:21 pm
Military spokesman Major Prasad Samarasingha confirmed that the General has been arrested from his Colombo office for committing military offences.
Meanwhile the memory chips of the cameras of the Daily Mirror photographer and an AFP journalist covering the arrest of the General were confiscated by the military who had surrounded the General's office.
The office premises of General Sarath Fonseka after he was taken away by the Military Police. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana