Magistrate grants permission for burial of Schaffter’s remains

Final report on cause of death to be submitted to court on 31 October by experts committee which conducted the second autopsy 

By A. J. A. Abeynayake

Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya yesterday granted permission for family members of the late businessman Dinesh Schaffter to bury his remains exhumed at the behest of a five-member committee of judicial and forensic medical experts appointed to ascertain the actual cause of his death.

Additional Magistrate Jayasuriya permitted the late businessman’s remains to be buried in a plot from the cemetery belonging to the Church of England denomination, located at the Jawatte Public Cemetery in Colombo.

The Additional Magistrate issued the order following the consideration of the recommendations made by the five-member experts’ committee against the cremation of the deceased’s remains.

The Additional Magistrate stated that the court expected the final report of the experts committee to be submitted on 31 October, the next date of hearing.