<div class="sortDec">Taking to Twitter, the Colombo-based high commission ‘strongly denied’ such reports which, it also said, lack 'any truth or substance.'</div> <div><img class="wp-image-240 aligncenter" src="http://indianexponent.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sri-Lanka-Economic-Crisis-17_1652094045573_1652202418570-300x169.webp" alt="" width="508" height="286" /></div> <div> <figure><figcaption>A Sri Lankan man reacts to tear gas as he walks past the vandalized site of anti-government protests outside the president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 9, 2022.. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)</figcaption></figure> <div class="actionDiv"> The Colombo-based Indian high commission on Tuesday dismissed 'rumors circulating on social media that ‘certain Sri Lankan politicians and their kin’ have escaped to India. “High Commission has recently noticed rumors circulating in sections of media & social media that certain political persons and their families have fled to India,” it said in a tweet. <div class="adMinHeight313"> “These are fake and blatantly false reports, devoid of any truth or substance, High Commission strongly denies them,” the tweet further said. <div class="embed_div ht-twitter-embed"> It was not immediately known which ‘political persons’ the high commission referred to in its tweet. <div class="adHeight313"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>