The Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to conduct further investigations into the mysterious death of a Sri Lankan journalist’s husband.
The court was informed that the journalist’s 60-year-old husband had not returned from work on 01 January 2025, and was later found in a critical condition at the Kalubowila Hospital on the following day.
The man, a resident of Vaidya Road in Dehiwala, had succumbed to injuries on 03 January.
On the day the victim was found, an Air Force official married to a lawyer, had informed the Police that the man was found with critical injuries in the garden of a property belonging to his wife in Hill Street, Dehiwala.
The lawyer representing the victim’s family informed the court that Dehiwala Police officers who had arrived at the location had proceeded to wash and change the clothes of the victim, instead of immediately hospitalizing him.
The lawyer further claimed that the Dehiwala Police had failed to conduct a proper probe into the incident.
However, the Dehiwala Police notified the court that statements had been recorded from the owners of the house and area residents with regard to the incident.
Taking into consideration the facts, especially the autopsy report which identified the cause of death as injuries caused by being attacked with a blunt object and the doubts over a fair probe by the Dehiwala Police, the court ordered the matter to be handed over to the CID.
The court also ordered the Director of the CID to appear before the court on March 18, during which the case will be taken up for hearing again. (Newswire)
