By Shehan Chamika Silva
Additional Solicitor General Dilan Ratnayake today told court that the investigation would turn into a new dimension, as the CID had initiated a broad examine over the alleged phone calls received to Thajudeen's friend, Ahamad Safar, on the day Wasim Thajudeen was found dead.
Filing a further report in court the CID said that it had recorded a statement from Ahmad Safar and further investigation are underway.
The prosecution said that it had begun an inquiry, in association with Health Department, over the alleged dispatch of body parts from Judicial Medical Services office to the SAITM and the procedure of how the SAITM had accepted the so-called bodyparts.
Earlier, the CID and a team of experts searched the SAITM Labratory based on the information revealed during the investigation that the former JMO Ananda Samaraseka had dispatched few body parts of late Wasim Thajudeen to the SAITM. And the recovered 19 femur bone pieces and seven bone pieces of chest area were sent to the 'Genetech' to conduct a DNA test using DNAs of Thajudeen's mother.
In line with the earlier given court order, Sri Lanaka Medical Council submitted a comprehensive report informing its difficulty to conclude the SLMC inqiury against former chief JMO Ananda Samarasekara on or before November 30, thereby they requested sufficient time period.
On October 19, Considering the prosecution's allegation, that the inquiry conducted at Sri Lanka Medical Council against former chief JMO Ananda Samarasekara over missing body parts of Thajudeen was deliberately delayed, the Magistrate Nishantha Peiris earlier ordered the SLMC to finish the inquiry immediately and submit a comprehensive report on the conclusions of it on or before November 30 in court.
The Magistrate Nishantha Peiris acceding the SLMC request directed them to submit a comprehensive report on November 30 as earlier advised about the inquiry's progress up to date to consider on more time.
The Magistrate also advised the CID to focus more towards the main inquiry of identifying the culprits to the murder of Thajudeen and expedite the investigations.
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 acommon 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 Nishantha Peiris re-remanded the suspects till November 30.
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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