Deputy Solicitor General Dilan Ratnayake today told court that the CID is conducting a broad and sensitive investigation with the assistance of experts to identify the exact phone extension connected to Temple Trees which allegedly had conversations with former SDIG Anura Senanayake.
He also said the investigations had revealed that former SDIG Anura Senanayake had contacted the Temple Trees few occasions on May 15, 16 and 17 in 2012 prior to the Thajudeen was found dead, but the data relating to those conversations needed to be restored with the support of IT experts since those records had been deleted from the main data base.
DSG also said that the phone conversations of a security official of former president had been examined by the CID, while another security officer Captain Thissa Wimalasena, who had the responsibility over allocating the vehicles to the former president and his family on the day Thajudeen was found dead, was also interrogated into the incident.
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 February 16.
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