A request has been made from the Colombo Magistrate’s Court to exhume the body of the late Sri Lankan businessman Dinesh Schaffter in order to ascertain the cause of death.
The five-member special forensic expert committee made the request from Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya yesterday (18).
During the hearing, the committee stated that it was necessary to exhume the body of Scahffter to verify the cause of death.
The Committee, therefore, requested the court to provide permission for this purpose.
The judge fixed a new date for the hearing in which an order is to be given to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) based on the special forensic expert committee’s request.
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 the following day 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)