Wasim Thajudeen

Days were few and rare when the investigation into the murder of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen did not become the topic in many media conferences and election stages before the Yahapalana government came into power. Former President Maithripala Sirisena, especially during the election campaign in 2015, used photos of Thajudeen to criticise the state of affairs under former President and […]

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pointed fingers at the security forces over its failure to conclude investigations into some high-profile criminal cases, The Sunday Morning learnt. Reports on six high-profile investigations were handed over to the Attorney General’s (AG) Department last week. Meanwhile, following the updated report on investigations that had been submitted by the […]

The CID revealed this information when the case in this regard was taken up for hearing today. The CID stated that investigations have commenced in search of the suspects. Colombo Additional Magistrate Jerome Trotsky informed the CID to forward the images of the suspects to the Government Analyst for further investigations. The Magistrate also called […]

Issuing a statement Friday Forum has questioned the delay in investigations and taking legal action on prominent cases like murder of the young rugby player Thajudeen, the murder and the disappearance of several journalists and some politicians, criminal abuse of power to amass enormous wealth with no credible source of income or legal transfer of […]

The CID had informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris former Narahenpita OIC Damian Perera had received three telephone calls from the phones belonging to the Presidential Secretariat Office on the night of May 17, 2012 at Shalika Ground where Thajudeen’s murder took place, reports Daily News. The report further says: When the case of Wasim […]

Wasim Thajudeen, a talented rugby player, a friend to all and a man full of smiles, was brutally murdered and his body was left in a charred state at Narahenpita, four years ago. After much investigation, many breakthroughs and dead-ends, the case is yet to be solved. Although nothing was heard of the incident during […]

Senior State Counsel Dilan Rathnayake today told Court that according to the information revealed from the phone details of Former OIC of the Narahenpita Police Damian Perera, in connection with the murder of the killing of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen, the CID had recovered that the phone calls were received from the Presidential Secretariat on the […]

( Senanayake being taken to prison) Former senior DIG Anura Senanayake was taken into custody by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today in connection to the murder of former Sri Lanka national rugger player Wasim Thajudeen. He was produced in court and remanded till May 26. Senanayake was arrested after being questioned earlier in the […]

(former Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Champika Perera) In a statement to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), former Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Champika Perera told that he received instructions from higher ranking police officers not to conduct further investigations in connection with the murder of former rugby player Wasim Thajudeen. Filing a report in the Colombo […]

( File photo) Sri Lanka’s police arrested one of their own men for allegedly suppressing evidence in the high profile Thajudeen murder within hours of new Inspector-General Pujith Jayasundara assuming duties on Wednesday. The former Crime OIC of the Narahenpita police station, Inspector Sumith Champika Perera, was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department, the police […]

Wasim Thajudeen by Nirmala Kannangara. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is due to arrest a former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) who allegedly had a direct hand in closing down the police investigation into the mysterious death of Havelock Sports Club Rugby player and Vice Captain of the Sri Lanka Rugby Team Wasim Thajudeen. […]

The direct police involvement in two high profile murders have been established, but a more alarming cover up that goes right to the top has also been uncovered, sources close to the investigation said. Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris on Thursday ruled that Sri Lanka’s former rugby captain Wasim Thajudeen had been murdered contrary to […]

(File photo: Gotabhaya ordering DIG Anura Senanayaka – original image (c) Sanakav 16MM) Arrests likely in next two weeks, Suspects not permitted to leave country. A Deputy Inspector General of Police who had close links with the top brass of the previous administration is among the possible suspects in the Wasim Thajudeen case, authoritative police […]

( Shranthi Rajapaksa accepting the defender) Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday ordered the CID to probe the alleged misuse of a Defender vehicle belonging to the Red Cross Society, for the commission of a crime, being painted over in a different colour to avoid recognition. Court has learned that this has been allegedly authorized […]

Wasim Thajudeen’s murder probe entered a phase with potentially serious political repercussions with the Army opening a probe into Captain Tissa Wimalasena who has been identified by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as a major suspect in the assassination of national rugby player WasimThajudeen, sources said. Investigators claim to have identified links between Captain Tissa […]

A senior officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told Ceylon Today that a group of high ranking officials of the Police Department as well as a group of politicians are trying to scuttle the investigations into the killing of popular ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen. A senior police officer said that the reason for the obstructions […]

Three persons involved in the murder of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen have been identified after analyzing CCTV footage. Among these are two persons attached to the Navy. The Computer Department of the University of Colombo is further analyzing the footage and CID has called Senior DIG S.K.D.S. Gunawardane, who was in charge of Colombo during the […]

( Both are responsible ?) A driver of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to be arrested in connection with the murder of former Sri Lanka Rugby captain Wasim Thajudeen. The CCTV footage on the abduction of Wasim Thajudeen that shows the events taken place just before his murder was handed over to Colombo University to […]

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today instructed the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) to launch an inquiry regarding the medical team, including former Chief Judicial Medical Officer of Colombo Dr. Ananda Samarasekara, which had carried out the first postmortem examination after the death of former Sri Lankan rugby player Wasim Thajudeen. The instructions were issued after […]

When former Rugby player Wasim Thajudeen’s body was exhumed in August this year, just seven days before a crucial Parliamentary election, some sections of the society thought it would be another ‘election gimmick.’ They believed the Police would not be able to probe into the incident in a free and fair manner, as the investigation […]

Sri Lankan diplomat Sepala Ratnayake’s name has been mentioned in connection with the investigation into the death of former Rugby player Wasim Thajudeen, top Police sources told Asian Mirror. Ratnayake, who was attached to the Sri Lankan mission in London, had allegedly assisted one of the suspects of Thajudeen’s case to escape to London, the […]

Colombo Chief JMO Ajith Tennakoon yesterday informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris that former Sri Lanka rugby star Wasim Thajudeen had not been driving his vehicle at the time of his death.The initial verdict was that Thajudeen had died of injuries sustained in a car accident.Tennakoon told the Colombo Additional Magistrate that the former rugby […]

The death of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen, whose burnt body was found in a vehicle near the Shalika Grounds in Narahenpita, was pronounced a murder in the final report submitted to Court today by a board of medical officers led by the Colombo Chief JMO, Dr. Ajith Tennakoon. Complaints had been lodged with the CID that […]

Ex –JMO Prof. Ananda Samarasekera in his final autopsy report filed in court asserts that the death of Mohamed Waseem Thajudeen was due to unconsciousness, disability of limbs and inhalation of carbon monoxide gas emitted from the fire. The detailed report stated that at the time of the onset of the fire he was alive […]

(Gotabaya Rajapaksa allegedly ran death squads when he was defence minister,Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ Reuters) Sri Lankan living in UK also linked to ‘conspiracy’, JMO report on Sept 10: Arrests to begin within two weeks. Three ex-PSD officers – who have been identified by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) as possible suspects of former rugby player Wasim […]

(Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is contesting in the upcoming general election, speaks during the launch ceremony of his manifesto, in Colombo July 28, 2015. Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte; ) The exhumation of the remains of a star rugby player whose death is now the target of a murder investigation has cast a shadow over […]

ECONOMYNEXT – Gruesome details have emerged of the murder of Sri Lanka rugger player Wasim Thajudeen ahead of the exhumation of his body, official sources said today. The killers are said to have made a former girlfriend of Wasim’s listen to him being tortured, the sources said, adding that the horrific account of the events […]

Deaths of innocents in Sri Lanka have had a long and terrible history. No political party can wash its hands of this blood despite the hypocritical outrage often professed in public. Such fire breathing rhetoric only increases in intensity when an election draws near. But the cold hard truth is that a genuine righting of […]

( Sri Lanka rugger player Wasim Thajudeen was found murdered inside his car in May 2012 and authorities now say he was also tortured) ECONOMYNEXT – Authorities are probing stunning new evidence that may link former First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa’s ‘Siriliya’ charity to the murder of rugger player Wasim Thajudeen, police sources disclosed today. Thajudeen […]