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The woman of the erstwhile Sri Lankan quality main arrested successful the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings has alleged harassment by the Criminal Investigation Department.
Suresh Sallay, a retired large wide and erstwhile caput of Sri Lanka's State Intelligence Service, was detained by the constabulary connected February 25, arsenic portion of a reopened probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.
It was a bid of coordinated termination attacks connected churches and luxury hotels that killed 270 people, including overseas nationals, and wounded hundreds more.
In the missive sent to the National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses connected Saturday (June 20), Sallay's wife, Manori Sallay, complained of threats to her lad and girl from continued Criminal Investigation Department (CID) surveillance.
According to the letter, aft her lad and girl paid a sojourn to their father, who is presently successful hospital, they were followed by a CID official.
Sallay was transferred to a infirmary earlier this period aft a missive addressed to the inspector wide of constabulary by his woman alleged that her hubby was subjected to “torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”
"I've been informed by my children that upon leaving the infirmary premises, a CID serviceman has entered the assistance with them and appeared to travel them”, she said.
When the children got into their vehicle, they observed the aforesaid antheral lasting adjacent to instrumentality their photos, she added, terming the incidental arsenic alarming.
These actions look calculated to intimidate, harass and make fearfulness and anxiousness successful my children and me, she said successful the letter.
The allegations could not beryllium independently verified.
Sallay is among the astir elder erstwhile information officials to beryllium detained successful transportation with the attacks.
