The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) conducting investigations into the murder of former rugby player Wasim Thajudeen yesterday informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris that investigations have revealed that there was an intercom telephone network operating from the Presidential Secretariat to connect Carlton House in Tangalle. Deputy Solicitor General Dilan Ratnayake said police were conducting a comprehensive investigation in this regard. At a previous occasion, the CID informed Court that the telephone records on calls made from the Presidential Secretariat to the then Narahenpita OIC Damien Perera on the day of Thajudeen’s death took place, are currently being investigated by the CID.
Meanwhile, the Director of the Colombo National Hospital was yesterday ordered to submit a report to Court regarding the medical treatment records of former senior DIG Anura Senanayake from 2003 up to the time of his arrest ,since the Senior DIG claimed that he had undergone treatment from that year onwards.
The Additional Magistrate made this order taking into consideration a request made by the aggrieved party and the Attorney General complaining that Anura Senanayake was enjoining special privileges while being treated at the Merchant Ward of the Colombo National Hospital.
Meanwhile, Western Province former Senior DIG Anura Senanayake and former Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Champika Perera arrested over their alleged role in the cover up of evidence in the former rugby player Wasim Thajudeen murder were yesterday ordered to be further remanded till September 21 by the Colombo Additional Magistrate.
The suspects have sought bail from Colombo High Court through two separate revision applications. Counsel Dhanraja Samarakoon appeared for second suspect Anura Senanayake. Senior Counsel Ajith Pathirana appeared for first suspect Sumith Champika Perera. On July 27, 2015 the CID submitted to Court that the death of Thajudeen was not an accident but a murder. Delivering the verdict, Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris on February 25 this year ruled that the death appeared to be a murder and ordered the CID Director to immediately arrest all suspects involved in the incident and produce them before Courts. Thajudeen was killed, apparently, in a road accident in Colombo in May 2012. The CID had informed court that investigations conducted so far had revealed that Thajudeen’s teeth had been broken, the bones in the pelvic region also broken and his neck pierced with a sharp instrument prior to his death.
The CID added that muscles in his legs had been cut with a piece of a broken glass. Earlier, police maintained that Thajudeen was driving to the airport and had lost control of his car and crashed into the wall of Shalika Grounds at Park Road, Narahenpita, and that his vehicle had exploded within seconds of the crash.
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