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Obeysekera
deed forgery case He said he could not find any developing changes in the forged documents to show that the signatory was suffering from Parkinson's disease. Prof. P. Chandra Sekharan was giving evidence, led by Senior State Counsel S. Thurairajah before High Court Judge Ms. Rohini Perera on the forged deeds relating to Mr. Obeysekera's property. He confirmed that there were blatant differences in the two sets of documents he examined. In this case former BASL secretary Bandula Wijesingha, former Military spokesman Sumedha Perera and former caretaker of the property Sarath Wijewardena are indicted with claiming the land and ancestral home of Mr. Obeysekera through forged documents. They are charged with fraudulently certifying a forged document and making a forged deed as a deed of gift for the land and property in Rajagiriya of Frederick Obeysekera, on or around June 11, 2001 and with aiding and abetting the said offence. Prof. Chandra Sekharan further stated that after thoroughly examining 55 sample signatures it clearly showed that there were indications of progressive signs of a Parkinsonian. He said due to Mr. Obeysekera's illness and age the fluency, tremulousness and shakiness of his signature was a clear sign of Parkinson's. In the latter stages of his life the word and individual letter alignment was missing in his writing, the witness said. His observation was that the person who forged the signature had not been able to co-ordinate with the muscular movements of the original signature when he signed the forged deeds. Also the forged deeds were made using previous signatures of the late Mr. Obeysekera as a model. These forgeries were done without understanding certain features of his later handwriting. The forger could not co-ordinate with the mind, muscle and nerve process of the original writing of Mr. Obeysekera when he made the forged document. Prof. Sekharan said the forged signatures were like a twenty-five-year-old woman standing amidst seventy-five-year-old women. Further hearing was postponed for May 25. |
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