The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) told the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday that no CCTV footage was recorded at either former SriLankan Airlines CEO Kapila Chandrasena’s residence or the house where he was found dead on May 8, Newswire reported.

Reporting progress before Magistrate Pasan Amarasena, CCD officers said that although Chandrasena’s residence had two vehicle entrances, camera checks confirmed no external person entered the premises between May 5 and May 7, 2026. Cameras installed at both locations had not captured any footage during the window. The finding extends the investigators’ earlier disclosure that no recordings were on hand.

Police told the court that the engineer of the company responsible for installing the CCTV systems had been summoned to testify. Digital video recorder (DVR) devices from cameras at both locations have been taken into custody and sent to the Government Analyst for examination.

Unidentified medicines also found at the scene — two types of tablets, nine strips of one and eleven strips of another — have been referred to the Government Analyst.

The CCD said telephone records between Chandrasena and his domestic staff are being sought, but time constraints delayed retrieval; fresh affidavits will be filed to obtain the data. The phone-records track opened earlier in the inquiry remains active.

The Magistrate questioned why the two former sureties remanded in the bail-fraud strand had not yet been called as witnesses. Police replied that statements had not been recorded, and the Magistrate directed that the witnesses must be summoned regardless, especially as they remain in remand custody. The case was adjourned after unnecessary witnesses were released, continuing the death-inquest thread led earlier by Aravinda’s evidence.

Ada Derana reported the third day of the inquiry also heard testimony from a nurse at a private hospital who described the condition in which Chandrasena’s body was found after responding to an emergency call, and from a domestic employee at the residence where Chandrasena had been staying, who said he had last seen the former airline executive during the early hours of the morning carrying a white bottle near a water filter. The engineer of the company that installed the residence’s CCTV cameras also gave evidence about how the surveillance system functioned. The court granted all investigative requests and ordered further witness testimony to be recorded; proceedings were postponed to May 22.