DNA tests on samples recovered at SAITM

5 October 2016 02:56 pm Views - 13502

Deputy Solicitor General Dilan Ratnayake today told court that the prosecution was expecting to conduct a DNA test on the remains recovered from Laboratory of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe over the inquiry into the missing body parts of late ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen.

Meanwhile, Former Western Province Senior DIG Anura Senanayake and former Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Perera were ordered to be further remanded till October 19 by the Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today.

More than 26 skeletal remains were recovered from Laboratory of SAITM by the CID when a team of experts searched the SAITM Laboratory based on the information revealed during the investigation, that former Colombo JMO Ananda Samarasekera had dispatched the samples to the SAITM. (Shehan Chamika Silva)