COLOMBO : The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered remanded the wife of former minister Rishad Bathiudeen and three others until August 09 in connection with the mysterious death of a teenage domestic worker who had been employed at their home.
The four defendants, including Bathiudeen’s father-in-law, brother-in-law and the broker who had brought the girl for employment from Dayagama, were produced before the court on Monday July 26.
Meanwhile the court also ordered to exhume the remains of the deceased girl and to conduct further forensic examination.
Shabdheen Ayesha – the 46-year-old wife of MP Bathiudeen, her father Mohamed Shabdheen and the middleman in question identified as a 64-year-old named Ponnaiyah Pandaram, were arrested by police on July 23 following the recording of their statements regarding the death.
Police had also obtained a court order permitting the detention of the trio for 72 hours for interrogation.