CID denies having nature of CCTV footage claimed by Rajitha!

Dec 13, 2015

The CID says it does not possess the nature of CCTV camera footage as claimed by cabinet spokesman, minister Rajitha Senaratne, with regard to the death of rugger player Mohamad Wasim Thajudeen.

The minister has been telling the media that the CID has received CCTV footage which will turn the political world upside down, including how Thajudeen had been beaten up and murdered.

 

When contacted, a CID spokesman said they could very easily have proved Thajudeen had been murdered, had they been in the possession of such footage.

 

Also, the operation to identify and arrest the killers would not have been so difficult, he said.

 

The CID has told the minister to provide it without delay the CCTV footage as claimed by him.

 

When the CID asked him about the CCTV footage, the minister has said that a certain person has given him information with regard to the CCTV footage.

 

The CID has asked the minister to help it to get in touch with that person to obtain his assistance in the investigation.

 

However, that is yet to be done.

 

The CCTV footage available to the CID regarding Thajudeen’s death, from two cameras erected in two buildings in the vicinity of where the rugger player had been murdered, has been sent to the IT unit of the Colombo University for specialist examination.

 

That footage has not contained the nature of footage as claimed by Senaratne.

 

A leading weekend newspaper reported that CCTV footage of Thajudeen’s murder, which will turn the political world upside down, will soon be made public.

 

The CID is looking into whether both the minister and the newspaper are trying to take the murder investigation away from the proper course.

 

Political analysts are of the view that it could be a conspiracy to cover up the murder that Senaratne and the newspaper are making misleading statements.