Colombo Additional Magistrate Keminda Perera today ordered the Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer to exhume the body of a youth named Sathsara Nimesh who died in Welikada police custody.
The Additional Magistrate, who considered the request made by the victim, ordered that the body be exhumed and a post-mortem examination be conducted by a medical committee consisting of three specialist doctors and the report be submitted to the court.
Statements taken from 14 police officers, suspects in custody at the Welikada police on that day and witnesses from the National Institute of Mental Health in relation to the incident were also submitted to the court.