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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, September 24, 2016
SAITM Says They Don’t Have Wasim Thajudeen’s Skeletal Remains
September 23, 2016
In a new twist to the Wasim Thajudeen murder case, South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM)
Chairman Dr. Neville Fernando has said that his institute does not
possess any skeletal remains of the late ruggerite, who was murdered.
In a statement issued, Fernando said, “SAITM records do not reveal that
any specimen of the late Mr. Wasim Thajudeen was sent to the
institution. SAITM states no authority has visited the institution or
inspected any specimens that are in its custody, to date.”
Fernando however assured that he and his institute were willing to
co-operate in any investigation and give access to its available
specimens which according to Fernando are taken over following due and
established process and are documented, supervised and certified by the
relevant authorities.
“Such specimens at SAITM are securely kept in its museum and are used for teaching purposes only,” the statement said.
Fernando’s statement comes just days after the CID informed the Court
that Thajudeen’s missing skeletal remains were at SAITM. According to
the CID, ex-JMO Ananda Samarasekera had sent some of the Thajudeen skeletal remains to SAITM in Malabe.
In August, Health Ministry Secretary Anura Jayawickrema in a report
submitted to the Colombo Additional Magistrate said that ex-JMO was
responsible for the missing body parts of Thajudeen’s body. Jayawickrema
said that Samarasekera had acted in an irresponsible manner when
conducting the first postmortem, in which Samarasekera ruled Thajudeen’s
death was due to an accident. The ex-JMO had later claimed that he had
handed over the body parts to two minor staff to store in a freezer but
both staff members had denied this.