Sri Lanka CID files allegations against Ex-Intelligence Chief

In Sri Lanka, the Criminal Investigation Department has informed the Magistrate’s Court that it has filed three key allegations linked to investigations into the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombings against the former State Intelligence Service chief Maj. Gen. (Retd) Suresh Salley. The former intelligence chief has been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act as a suspect for allegedly misleading probes into the Vavunathivu police killings and the Sainthamaruthu explosion. The CID reported to court several findings revealing alleged links between former State Intelligence Chief Suresh Salley and the Easter Sunday terror attacks. 
Investigators also alleged that an intelligence informant was used to show St. Sebastian’s Church, Katuwapitiya, one of the Easter attack targets, to the extremists before the bombings. The CID further told the court that Salley pressured investigators to conduct a third DNA test linked to Sara Jasmine, despite two earlier tests failing to confirm her death after the Sainthamaruthu blast. The agency surther  revealed that Salley had allegedly interfered in the process of confirming the death of Pulastini Rajendran, also known as Sarah Jasmine, who was linked to the Easter attacks. Salley’s lawyers rejected the claims, saying he was in Malaysia at the time of the Easter attacks.