Sallay family surveillance allegations deepen after Manori Sallay complains that her children were followed near Colombo National Hospital.
Sallay family surveillance allegations have raised fresh concern after relatives of former intelligence chief retired Major General Suresh Sallay claimed they were followed and threatened.
Sallay is currently in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks.
His wife, Manori Bandusena Sallay, lodged an urgent complaint on June 20 with the Chairman of the National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses.
In the complaint, she strongly questioned the purpose of individuals dressed in civilian clothing, suspected to be attached to the CID, allegedly following her children.
The situation has become more serious as Sallay continues to receive treatment at the Colombo National Hospital.
According to the complaint, Sallay’s 17-year-old school-going daughter and 22-year-old son had visited their father at the hospital and were leaving when a man in civilian clothing entered the same elevator and followed them.
Even after the children avoided journalists and exited through another gate to reach their vehicle, the individual allegedly came close to the vehicle and used his mobile phone to take photographs and video footage of them.
At that critical moment, Sallay’s son secretly managed to take a photograph of the person allegedly following them.
That photograph has now been handed over to the authorities as key evidence and identified as “X1.”
The complaint further states that the same individual had previously been seen loitering suspiciously near the CID premises on several occasions when the family’s vehicle was parked there.
The most serious question now raised is why any law enforcement-linked individual would allegedly follow and photograph family members, including a minor child.
Another disturbing issue mentioned in the complaint concerns the treatment of Suresh Sallay himself.
It states that the Officer-in-Charge of the relevant institution admitted before the Human Rights Commission that Sallay had been stripped naked and searched in the presence of other detainees.
The complaint questions whether the authorities are attempting to disrupt the legal process and create mental intimidation through such alleged inhuman treatment and the targeting of family members.
Manori Sallay has strongly requested the relevant authority to conduct an urgent independent investigation into the matter.
She has also called for authorities to reveal on whose instructions the individual was allegedly acting and to provide immediate protection for her family.
SOURCE:- SRI LANKAN LEADER
