A 5-member investigative committee comprising Judicial and forensic medical experts has been appointed to deduce the cause of death of the late Sri Lankan businessman Dinesh Schaffter.
According to Ada Derana, the committee was appointed by Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya.
The five-member committee of forensic experts is headed by Prof Asela Mendis. The expert committee is set to deduce the cause of death of the late Dinesh Schaffter and present facts to the court.
Thereafter, the court is expected to take up for hearing the postmortem examination on 14th March 2023.
The committee has been appointed after several contradictions were reported in the previous postmortem examination report.
The Police had informed the courts that the cause of death has been found as the ingestion of cyanide.
The 52-year-old Dinesh Schaffter was found tied up in the driving seat of his car at the Borella cemetery on December 15, 2022, and died due to a cardiac arrest while receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital.
The Homicide and Organised Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is conducting investigations in collaboration with the Borella police into Schaffter’s death. (NewsWire)