<span style="color: #222222;">Sri Lankan chief of defence staff Ravindra Wijegunaratne was arrested on Wednesday.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He is accused of shielding a naval intelligence officer allegedly responsible for killing 11 persons during the 2008-09 war against the LTTE. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was sent to custody till 5th of next month. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Earlier, he surrendered to court after weeks of evading arrest as a Colombo court ordered the CID to take necessary action to arrest him. Several members of the Sri Lankan military are accused of abductions and extra-judicial killings during the war.</span><br />''