‘If I’m remanded, my wife, daughter will die of broken hearts’

May 24, 2016

“If I am remanded, my wife and daughter will die of broken hearts. If you want to see that happen, remand me,” retired senior DIG Anura Senanayake said soon after he was arrested by the CID yesterday (23). CID officials asked him in return, “So, sir. Thajudeen’s mother and father wouldn’t have had any hearts?” without answering that, a weeping Senanayake said, “I have shouldered a sorry fate.” 

As the CID read out the charges against him during arrest, he alleged the entire investigation was biased. What Senanayake has been doing at the CID, where he was summoned to give a statement, was to lecture CID officials on how to carry out investigations.

 

“What I state here can be verified by going through the entries by my bodyguards,” he said, but upon investigation, it was found that his chief bodyguard had gone on leave days before the incident. That officer has admitted to the CID that he had entered the notes several weeks later. Also, the CID found personal entries about the whole episode by the constable who was abused in filth by Senanayake for having found ruggerite Thajudeen’s wallet, and several other constables.

 

Senanayake was previously accused by the CID of concealing evidence and aiding and abetting to commit murder, but upon summarizing evidence, it was found that murder charges too, could be filed as per clause 294 of the penal code. Accordingly, the CID’s B report submitted to court yesterday had the murder charge too.

 

Senanayake is due to be produced before courts on May 26, when the Colombo magistrate’s courtroom no. 03 takes up the case into the Thajudeen murder.