Acceding the prosecution’s request, Colombo Additional Magistrate Daminda Weligodapitiya permitted the CID to check 15 bank accounts relating to five suspicious individuals in search of doubtful transactions in connection with the murder of Wasim Thajudeen since 2012.
Filing a further report in court, the prosecution sought court permission to obtain bank statements relating to 15 bank accounts owned by five individuals.
The CID also informed the court that it had initiated a broad investigation on the recovered suspicious phone number allegedly used by the former SDIG.
The Magistrate also directed the Sri Lanka Medical Council to provide extracts pertaining to the internal inquiry conducted against the former chief JMO and two others over the irregularity occurred while conducting the postmortem of late Wasim Thajudeen to the CID.
An inquiry is being conducted by the SLMC against former chief JMO Ananda Samarasekara, Shriyantha Amararatne and C.K. Rajaguru over the missing body parts of the Wasim Thajudeen and the misdeeds occurred while the post mortem of Thajudeen was conducted.
The prosecution said that the analytical report of University of Colombo on the CCTV footage which contained suspicious vehicle that chased Thajudeen's vehicle on the day that he was found dead, and the DNA test report on the recovered 19 femur bone pieces and seven bone pieces of chest area at the SAITM laboratory were still pending.
Earlier, the CID and a team of experts searched the SAITM Laboratory 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.
Then the Recovered body parts were sent to the 'Genetech' to conduct a DNA test using DNAs of Thajudeen's mother.
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 Aruna Buddadasa.re-remanded the suspects till March 2.
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