News Editor of Lanka E News website Bennet Rupasinghe was arrested by the Wellampitiya police in Colombo for allegedly threatening the brother of one of the suspects who is in custody over the arson attack on their office in Malabe in January this year.Confirming the arrest , Police Spokesperson Prasahanta Jayakkody told AIR/DD that the news editor has been taken into custody on the basis of complaint made by the brother of the suspect who is under police remand and is being questioned over the arson attack on the office of the Lanka e News earlier this year . He said that , Mr Rupasinghe will be produced before the Kaduwela Magistrate later in the day .In January this year , a group of unidentified people broke into the office of the news portal and had set fire to all the fixtures and equipment they could find. Following protest by media groups , Sri Lankan government had ordered a high level enquiry into the incident and some arrest had meen made in the case.Earlier Prageeth Eknaligoda, a cartoonist and columnist with Lanka E News went missing in January 2010, just days before polls opened in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections. He has not yet been traced.The US Embassy in Colombo had expressed concerned about the attack on the office of Lanka-E-News in Colombo and had urged the Sri Lanka government that the investigation be conducted quickly and fairly and that all the perpetrators be brought to justice.In a strongly worded statement , US Embassy had said that ‘ regardless of who is responsible for this incident, such violence directed against a media institution silences voices, further threatens freedom of expression, and undermines democracy throughout the country.’