Former Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) Dr. Ananda Samarasekara has been indicted by Attorney General (AG) before the Colombo High Court for concealing evidence in Wasim Thajudeen’s murder case, the AG’s Department said. Dr. Samarasekara was the former Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer who performed the first post-mortem examination on Thajudeen’s charred body found in 2012. According to reports when the second autopsy was carried out in 2015 by exhuming Wasim Thajudeen’s body, the chest plate, trachea (windpipe) and two long bones which had symmetrical fractures were found missing. In 2017 The CID informed court that evidence had come to light suggesting that the former JMO, had acted to destroy and conceal vital evidence in Thajudeen’s murder case.