By Shehan Chamika Silva
Inspector of Police, Homicide Division of CID, Ravindra Wimalasiri today told Court, according to statements recorded from a few witnesses, the former chief JMO Ananda Samarasekara had dispatched some body parts of Wasim Thajudeen from a vehicle to the Saitm Private Campus in Malabe after the first autopsy.
The CID filing a further report informed Court that according to the statements recorded from two officers at the JMO's office; it was revealed that following the conclusion of the autopsy, the former Chief JMO had returned to the office and cut some parts of the victim's body. Later, he had placed them in the refrigerator, the CID said.
The prosecution said after releasing the body to the relatives that the former JMO had taken away the body parts from the refrigerator a few days prior to his retirement.
The CID had also informed court that it had begun an investigation concerning the missing body parts under the Public Property Act, because the body parts had earlier been taken to the former JMO's custody as case productions and, therefore, they belonged to the state.
Meanwhile, acceding to the request of the prosecution, the Magistrate issued an order to a Software Engineer, who was attached to the maintenance staff of the phone network of the Presidential Secretariat, to assist the CID to recover the phone details that were deleted.
Earlier, the CID informed there were phone calls received by the Narahenpita OIC from the Presidential Secretariat on the day that Wasim Thajudeen was found dead and the prosecution later found that the phone details were deleted from the data base.
However, they had recovered a CPU from the data base in expectation of recovering the selected data.
Considering the report submitted by the Director of the Colombo National Hospital, the Magistrate Nishantha Peiris advised the second suspect Anura Senanayake to assist the Director of Colombo National Hospital providing his medical history in order to tender a comprehensive report on the suspect's medical condition in court.
The Magistrate observed that the decision over the request of the aggrieved party, that the suspect was been continuously treated at the Paying Ward at CNH, would be taken into consideration after the Director of CNH submitted his comprehensive report over the suspect.
Earlier, considering the requests of the aggrieved party, the Magistrate ordered the Director General of the Colombo National Hospital to submit a comprehensive report on whether former SDIG Anura Senanayake had received treatment at the CNH or any other hospital from 2003 to date (regarding his so- called illness).
In a further report the CID had informed Court that according to the statement recorded from the OIC of the Colombo South Scenes Of Crimes Officers (SOCO) Kirthi Iddamalgoda; it was revealed that the Narahenpita Crimes OIC and Police OIC were informed to conduct a Government Analyst inquiry on the burnt vehicle by him.
However, the Narahenpita Police had not called for a GA report over the vehicle.
The CID also said that the photos which were taken by an officer attached to the SOCO were also not called for the autopsy by the Chief JMO.
The prosecution said that the suspects -- former SDIG Anura Senanayake and former Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Perera -- had been charged under Sections 113 (Conspiracy) and 32 (Liability for act done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) of the Penal Code, and that according to the provision in Section 13 of the Bail Act, a person who had been charged with an offence punishable with death or with life imprisonment, shall not be released on bail except by a judge of the High Court.
They had been arrested by the CID and charged under Sections 113 (Conspiracy) and 32 (Liability for act done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) of the Penal Code in connection with the murder of Ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen.
Considering that the suspects had already filed revision bail applications in the High Court, the Magistrate re-remanded the suspects till October 5.
The former SDIG and the former Crimes OIC have also been charged with causing the disappearance of evidence, fabricating false evidence, using it to shield the offender and conspiring under Clauses of 189,198 and 296 of the Penal Code.
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