Colombo (LNW): The Colombo Magistrate Court today (20) ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to take measures to expedite the probe into the mysterious death of renowned businessman Dinesh Schaffter.
This was when the case on the businessman’s death was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya today.
The Additional Magistrate ordered the CID to obtain all relevant reports from the government analyst pertaining to the samples sent for testing, in response to the delay in receiving reports on blood samples and other materials of the investigation.
Additional Magistrate Jayasuriya stated that measures must be taken to obtain these evidence and that the government analyst may also be summoned before Court, if necessary.
The case was adjourned till June 28.
On December 15, 2022, Schaffter, Director of the Janashakthi PLC Group, was found tied up in his vehicle near the Borella General Cemetery, and later was pronounced dead.
