Thajudeen murder case was taken up for inquiry yesterday(7) . Senior State Counsel Dilan Ratnayake informed Court that earlier, the CID had informed court that there were phone calls from the Presidential Secretariat and Temple Trees to Narahenpita Police OIC Damien Perera on the day Wasim Thajudeen was found dead. Further, he submitted that Carlton House in Hambanthota had been included in the internal phone network connection of the Presidential Secretariat.
The state counsel also said that, according to statements recorded from a few witnesses, the former chief JMO Ananda Samarasekara had dispatched body parts of Wasim Thajudeen from the refrigerator a few days prior to his retirement.
The CID had also informed court that it had begun an investigation concerning the missing body parts under the Public Property Act because the body parts had earlier been taken into the former JMO’s custody as case productions and, therefore, they belonged to the state. Considering the requests of the aggrieved party and the prosecution,
Magistrate Nishantha Peiris ordered the Director General of the Colombo National Hospital to submit a comprehensive report on whether former SDIG Anura Senanayake had received treatments at the CNH or any other hospitals from 2003 to date (regarding his so- called illnesses).
The magistrate also ordered the DG to submit a medical report on the present medical condition of the SDIG and the necessity for him to be treated continuously at a paying ward in the CNH.
