Lasantha's remains to be exhumed

The body of a the slain chief editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper Lasantha Wickrematunga , who was gunned down in the final months of the country’s brutal civil war in 2009 is being exhumed on Tuesday as part of a fresh investigation into his death.

On the orders of the courts the remains of is to be exhumed from the Borella Kanatte premises in the morning of the 27th instant.

Wickrematunge was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles while driving to work in January 2009. On September 08, the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court ordered the exhumation of the remains of slain journalist following a request made by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) based on certain contradictions which existed between the autopsy report on the murder victim, the report on the surgery performed at the hospital and the government analyst report on the crime scene.

This order had been given by the Chief Magistrate of the Magistrate's courts Mt Lavinia when the case was heard the other day. It is reported that after the remains are exhumed once again the remains would be subjected to another postmortem examination by the judiciary medical office with his team in the medical board.