Evidence that Thajudeen murdered after setting ....

The team of police officers conducting investigations on popular Ruggerite Wasim

According to what the former Chief Judicial Medical Officer, Dr. Ananda Samarasekera disclosed to courts regarding murdered Thajudeen was that he had been forcibly pulled out from the car he had been driving and was assaulted with blows being dealt on his head and many other parts of his body in which case he was rendered unconscious and another person had put him inside his vehicle in that state while still alive and the vehicle was driven when the car incidentally had deviated from the route. Since the victim was made totally inactive on blows dealt on his head and limbs on the night of May 17th 2012 he had not been in a position to drive the vehicle in that condition.

Whatever it is, it has not been possible to identify that the wounds inflicted were serious enough to to cause immediate death as such. The former JMO had mentioned that Thajudeen may have driven the vehicle in an intoxicated state with a high quantity of liquor in his body and that he had consumed liquor about 2 hours prior to the said accident. The JMO then further said that the accident had occured at a time when the quantity of liquor in the victim's body had been gradually decreasing. However he pointed out that persons who habitually use liquor even have the ability of driving a vehicle even under a state of amnesia.

Whatever it is, Dr. Ananda Samarasekera had mentioned that at the moment when the accident took place the other parts of Thajudeen's body such as his hands and limbs had been made disabled and that it is possible to say that the assault had taken place prior to the vehicle concerned had strayed from the road; also that Thajudeen in fact was not dead when the fire broke out and though he was rendered helpless as a result of the blows dealt on him, he was in fact in a breathing state before the fire.

Dr. Ananda Samarasekera further said that carbon monoxide gas was found in Thajudeen's blood stream as a consequence of the fire which broke out within the vehicle and many of the wounds found on his body were the result of fire. The JMO further went on to testify to courts that because Thajudeen was caught in the fire he had died within a short time and also that a wound found on his chest which was circular in nature (similar to that of a driving-wheel) was the result of a pressure forced upon his chest.

When conducting a lengthy inquiry over the number "m" in the mobile phone used by Thajudeen the Criminal Investigation Department who revealed that the said phone was found in the possession of a person named Vardharaj in Agarapana Glasscowaththa area further said that the mobile phone had been given to him by his own father. His father in fact had been serving at a certain festival hall in Robert Gunawardena Mawatha in Kirullapona, it was revealed at the investigations.

After this information was conveyed to courts, the latter ordered the computer school of Colombo University to produce a report to courts by reforming the photographs in the memory data of the mobile phone belonging to Thajudeen including audio and video clips, short message service and telephone numbers together with a compact disc.

The Additional Magistrate who took into consideration some factors about certain influences made on a close relative supposed to be that of Thajudeen who incidentally is a person who provides strong and powerful evidence in this law case instructed the CID to conduct an inquiry on that matter too. The case is scheduled to be called for the next hearing on October 22nd.