The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) informed the Fort Magistrate’s Court yesterday (18)
that the statement of the arrested main suspect stated that the case file related to the
incident which led to the arrest of the Fort Magistrate’s Court Registrar was thrown into the Kelani River.
The CID submitted this fact to Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage yesterday (18), while presenting the main suspect who was arrested for misplacing the case file while he was found guilty and punished for seven out of eight charges related to defrauding money.
A suspect named Swarna Gamage Aruna Keerthi (54), who worked as an account manager at Janashakthi Insurance Company, was remanded. The CID informed the court that the investigation revealed that the suspect and the chief registrar had spoken for 20 minutes through WhatsApp on the day the fake documents were prepared.
Chief Inspector Jayantha Payagala, Officer-In-Charge of the Special Crimes Division of the CID said that on the day the suspect Registrar gave the case file to the suspect, she spoke to the suspect for 40 minutes from 3.53 to 4.33 in the evening and that she had made nine calls to the suspect on the same day.
The CID informed Court that it has been revealed that the suspected Registrar has been in contact with the concerned suspect by telephone on numerous occasions and that the case file which had been ordered to be referred to the Court of Appeal has not been forwarded to the Court of Appeal.
The suspect Registrar had informed that the case file was missing and had taken it out of the Court premises and given it to the suspect.
The suspect had been given 73 phone calls on numerous occasions and the fake letter stating that the travel ban imposed against the suspect was lifted on October 10 was forwarded to the Immigration and Emigration Controller and the suspect.
The missing case file had been taken by the registrar and handed over to the suspect. CID submitted a further report containing this information and informed the Court.
CID said that the suspect Chief Registrar had arbitrarily sent a letter to the immigration controller and misplaced the relevant case file, removing the foreign travel ban imposed on a suspect who was arrested by the Fraud Investigation Bureau and brought to Court in connection with defrauding money. The CID also asked court to remand the suspect till October 25, considering the possibility of influencing witnesses.
The Fort Magistrate convicted the person arrested by the Fraud Investigation Bureau for 7 out of 8 charges for defrauding a life insurance (Janashakthi) company of over three million rupees by forging documents and sentenced him to prison on February 15.
The panel of lawyers including President’s Counsel, Shanaka Ranasinghe informed Court that the suspect was assaulted seven times by an officer of CID while he was in custody.
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