{"id":167231,"date":"2016-09-05T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=167231"},"modified":"2016-09-05T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:56:53","slug":"attorney-general-to-file-case-against-ex-jmo-over-thajudeen-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/attorney-general-to-file-case-against-ex-jmo-over-thajudeen-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General To File Case Against Ex-JMO Over Thajudeen Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General will file a case against the ex-JMO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ananda+Samarasekera&amp;x=12&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ananda Samarasekera<\/span><\/a> under the Public Property Act over the murder of ruggerite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Wasim+Thajudeen&amp;x=7&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wasim Thajudeen<\/span><\/a>. Charges will be filed on grounds that Dr. Samarasekera was responsible for the body parts of the deceased ruggerite which went missing under Samrasekera&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_162273\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ananda-Samarasekera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162273\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-162273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ananda-Samarasekera-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ananda Samarasekera\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ananda-Samarasekera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ananda-Samarasekera-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-162273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ananda Samarasekera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In August, Samarasekera filed a Fundamental Rights application seeking an order preventing his arrest in connection with the missing body parts of Thajudeen.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Health Ministry Secretary Anura Jayawickrema in a report submitted to the Colombo Additional Magistrate said that the ex-JMO was responsible for the missing body parts of Thajudeen. Jayawickrema said that Samarasekera had acted in an irresponsible manner when conducting the first postmortem, in which Samarasekera ruled Thajudeen\u2019s death was due to an accident. The ex-JMO had claimed that he had handed over the body parts to two minor staff to store in a freezer but both staff members had denied this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":162273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Attorney General To File Case Against Ex-JMO Over Thajudeen Murder - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/attorney-general-to-file-case-against-ex-jmo-over-thajudeen-murder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Attorney General To File Case Against Ex-JMO Over Thajudeen Murder - 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