Tight police security was in place as the body was exhumed and the media was kept of the burial grounds for security reasons.

A large crowd gathered outside the site as the body was exhumed in the presence of a judge, Thajudeen’s family members and others.

'Sri Lanka Mirror' learns that a crowd is also engaged in a protest demonstration, calling for justice with regard to Thajudeen's death.

The Colombo Additional Magistrate last week gave the police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) the approval to exhume the body after the CID said that there was suspicion over the manner in which he died.

Thajudeen was earlier believed to have been killed in a car accident but later there was suspicion that he may have been murdered.

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