By T. Farook Thajudeen.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate today rejected a request by the CID to call a pastor as a witness for the post mortem into the death of two women under mysterious circumstances following a healing service at the Vihara Maha Devi Park recently.
 

On the day of the incident the two women who had got into a trance had been carried away to the centre of the open air theatre and the pastor nor any organizers had attended to them, one witness claimed during the hearing today. The witness further claimed that later the women who were taken to hospital were pronounced dead by the doctors.