Sri Lanka, March 5 -- Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate Hemali Halpandeniya has assigned further investigations into the mysterious death of a journalist's husband to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Accordingly, notice has been issued to the Director of the CID to appear before the court on March 18.

The deceased has been identified as Agosthinuge Samarajeewa, a 60-year-old resident of Waidya Road in Dehiwala.

It is reported that after his wife noticed her husband had not returned home after work on January 1, she went looking for him and later found him in critical condition with bruises at the Colombo South Teaching Hospital the following day, January 2.

The injured person, who was in critical condition, succumbed to ...