COLOMBO : The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered the Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) to exhume the remains of the youth who died while in the custody of the Welikada Police.
Accordingly, the Colombo Chief JMO was ordered to conduct a full post-mortem (PM) examination on the youth’s remains through a committee of three medical specialists and to submit a report to the Court. This order was issued by Colombo Additional Magistrate Keminda Perera Wednesday, April (9), after considering an appeal made by the aggrieved party.
The youth reportedly sustained fatal injuries while in the custody of the Welikada Police in the early hours of 2 April. He was subsequently admitted to the National Institute of Mental Health in Angoda, where he succumbed to his injuries. The Morning
