The CID today informed court that it had deployed special investigation groups to examine the facts obtained from individual informants regarding few suspicious persons in connection with the murder of Wasim Thajudeen.
The prosecution was of the view that based on the informants’ revelations, the investigations are being conducted more towards to the suspicious phone conversations of those identified persons and their unusual behavior after the victim was killed on May 17,2012.
Meanwhile, acceding the prosecution’s request the Court issued directions to Genetech Institute to send the 19 femur bone pieces and seven bone pieces of chest area recovered earlier at the SAITM to the Court to name them as case productions in to the inquiry.
Earlier those 26 bone pieces were tested with the DNAs of Thajudeen's mother to very if there any of victim’s body parts contained with the recovered bones. However, the test was negative and the Deputy Solicitor General Dilan Ratnayake, who is appearing for the Attorney General said that they could not reveal intended facts from those body parts, therefore be kept in court custody without any special security.
The CID also filing further report informed court that it had recently recorded statements from 25 officials, who were attached to the former President’s Security Division, over the improper removal of pages from the ‘Daily Duty Information Book’ of the President’s Security Division pertaining to the time period of May 10-22, 2012, which was the period during that Wasim Thajudeen was killed.
They also stated that a broad investigation is conducting over the suspicious removal of pages and that another 14 security officials have summoned to the CID in order interrogate the matter.
The Prosecution also said that it had initiated an investigation to observe all phone conversations between May 16-17, which took place in the region of where Thajudeen was killed.
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 by the prosecution.
They were also 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
However, first suspect, Sumith Perera was granted bail by the Colombo High Court on earlier occasion following a revision application filed on behalf of the suspect.
Considering that the suspect, Anura Senanayake had already filed revision bail applications in the High Court, Acting Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala re-remanded the suspect till May 4 and also directed other suspect to be appeared in court on the date.
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