CID assigns separate team to investigate graffiti found in Ishalini’s room

By Norman Palihawadane

CID sleuths investigating the death of 16-year-old Jude Kumar Ishalini, who died while being employed at the residence of Rishad Bathiudeen, have detailed a separate team of investigators to probe a graffiti found on the wall of the room Ishsalini slept in the MP’s private residence.

CID sources said that the investigators after inspecting the room had observed a something scribbled in English letters. The Tamil meaning of the phrase was ‘The cause of my death’.

Contacted for comment, police spokesman Snr. DIG Ajith Rohana confirmed the finding of the graffiti and a handwriting expert from the Government Analyst’s Department had visited the house for investigations. The police had secured several books used by Ishalini while she was attending school.

Meanwhile, Ishalini’s brother Jude Kumar Thiru Prasad told the media the victim had studied only up to Grade Seven at the Puwakpitiya Tamil Maha Vidyalaya and had not been able to write English. “To the best of my knowledge by sister could not have written such a thing. She could copy something out of an already written text but that too was from a Tamil text. I know nothing of this writing on the wall. I do not believe that she did it because she had no such education to write something using English script,” Thiru Prasad said.