{"id":168045,"date":"2016-09-23T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T06:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=168045"},"modified":"2016-09-23T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T07:37:43","slug":"saitm-says-they-dont-have-wasim-thajudeens-skeletal-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/saitm-says-they-dont-have-wasim-thajudeens-skeletal-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"SAITM Says They Don\u2019t Have Wasim Thajudeen\u2019s Skeletal Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new twist to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Wasim+Thajudeen&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wasim Thajudeen<\/span><\/a> murder case, South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=SAITM&amp;x=10&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SAITM<\/span><\/a>) Chairman Dr. Neville Fernando has said that his institute does not possess any skeletal remains of the late ruggerite, who was murdered.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168046\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dr.-Neville-Fernando.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168046\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dr.-Neville-Fernando-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Neville Fernando\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dr.-Neville-Fernando-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dr.-Neville-Fernando.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Neville Fernando<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a statement issued, Fernando said, \u201cSAITM records do not reveal that any specimen of the late Mr. Wasim Thajudeen was sent to the institution. SAITM states no authority has visited the institution or inspected any specimens that are in its custody, to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernando however assured that he and his institute were willing to co-operate in any investigation and give access to its available specimens which according to Fernando are taken over following due and established process and are documented, supervised and certified by the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch specimens at SAITM are securely kept in its museum and are used for teaching purposes only,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando\u2019s statement comes just days after the CID informed the Court that Thajudeen\u2019s missing skeletal remains were at SAITM. According to the CID, ex-JMO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ananda+Samarasekera&amp;x=4&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ananda Samarasekera<\/span><\/a> had sent some of the Thajudeen skeletal remains to SAITM in Malabe.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Health Ministry Secretary Anura Jayawickrema in a report submitted to the Colombo Additional Magistrate said that ex-JMO was responsible for the missing body parts of Thajudeen\u2019s body. 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 later 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<p>Samarasekera currently serves as the Professor and Head of Department of Forensic Medicine at SAITM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":168046,"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-168045","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>SAITM Says They Don\u2019t Have Wasim Thajudeen\u2019s Skeletal Remains - 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\/saitm-says-they-dont-have-wasim-thajudeens-skeletal-remains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SAITM Says They Don\u2019t Have Wasim Thajudeen\u2019s Skeletal Remains - 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