The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered to appoint a 05 member expert committee to prepare a report pertaining to the contradictions in the postmortem report of the late Sri Lankan businessman Dinesh Schaffter.
Issuing the order today, the court has instructed for the 05 member expert committee to comprise Judicial Medical Officers.
The late businessman’s family members had recently raised concerns in court over contradictions relating to Schaffter’s postmortem report.
Concerns were raised after the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) informed the Colombo Additional Magistrate on 10th February that the death of the businessman was a result of the ingestion of cyanide.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate was informed that the post-mortem examination report has also concluded that the injuries caused to Schaffter by strangulation were not fatal.
Earlier this week (14), the Colombo Magistrate’s Court issued an order to the Government Analyst and the Judicial Medical Officer to preserve the body parts of Dinesh Schaffter.
The court issued the order to secure the body parts of the late Sri Lankan businessman for the purpose of investigations into his death.
The 52-year-old Dinesh Schaffter was found tied up in the driving seat of his car at the Borella cemetery on December 15, 2022, and died due to a cardiac arrest while receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital.
The Homicide and Organised Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is conducting investigations in collaboration with the Borella police into Schaffter’s death. (NewsWire)