Deputy Solicitor General Dilan Ratnayake today told court that the investigations had revealed an unidentified person had traveled in the back seat of Wasim Thajudeen's vehicle on the day he was found dead.
DSG said that a broad investigation was deployed in identifying the individual and the former Narahenpita Crime OIC Sumith Perera needed to be interrogated over the incident.
Filing a further report, the CID informed court that according to the statement recorded from one neighbor of Thajudeen, it was revealed that the neighbor was asked to bring Thajudeen’s brother to a restaurant in Boralesgamuwa by Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Perera (first suspect) three days after the incident.
According to the neighbor’s statement, the Crimes OIC had discussed with victim’s brother, Aswan Thajudeen, in the restaurant and had instructed him not to go ahead with the death of late Thajudeen because the victim was found intoxicated and it was a woman involved matter.
However, after being interrogated by the prosecution, former Crimes OIC denied all the accusations and said that he had not involved in such discussions with Thajudeen’s brother.
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.
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.
Considering that the suspects had already filed revision bail applications in the High Court, Additional Magistrate Jeyaram Trosky.re-remanded the suspects till January 19.
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