23 October 2018 11:46 am
He had also detected the voice cuts to be tampered by attaching a software device to the complainants mobile phone.
The CID said efforts made by them to rectify the deletions had failed.
Meanwhile, the mobile phone manufacturer in Hong Kong had assured the CID that they re-marry the deleted parts of the recordings and as such the CID sought Court permission to send the mobile phone to Hong Kong for examination.
The CID said the two CDs given to the CID by Namal Kumara had been sent to the GA and were awaiting a response.
CID Chief Inspector Ranjith Munasinghe told the Magistrate that their investigations had revealed that Anti-Corruption Unit's director Namal Kumara, the complainant in this case, was an air force deserter who had later joined the Army and thereafter had worked in the Avant Guarde Security Services headed by Nissanka Senadipathy.
Counsel Ajith Pathirana appearing for Nalaka de Silva told the Magistrate that according to GA’s report the recordings of the conversation had been tampered and in such an event could not be used as evidence against his client because a tampered recording could not be considered as an original recording.
The Magistrate directed the Government Analyst to file a report on the questionnaire send to him by Court report his findings on the CDs sent to him for examination.
Meanwhile the CID directed Nalaka Silva to report to the CID to record another statement. (T. Farook Thajudeen)
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