A four-member forensic committee has unanimously concluded that the suspicious death of Mr Ranga Rajapaksa, who served as an Assistant Director in the Department of External Resources of the Treasury, was caused by self-inflicted cut injuries, Specialist Judicial Medical Officer and Chairman of the committee, Dr Ilangarathna Banda, told the Kuliyapitiya Magistrate, Mr Mihil Chiranthana Satharasinghe, while giving evidence today (3).

Mr Rajapaksa had been suspended from service in connection with an incident in which US$2.5 million belonging to the Ministry of Finance allegedly fell into the hands of a group of fraudsters.