National Hospital Director summoned over Suresh Sallay medical report

Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasena today (September 15) issued notice on the Director of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka to appear before court on September 22, 2026.

The notice was issued over the failure to submit a medical report on former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay.

Sallay is being detained and questioned under a detention order in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks.

At the previous hearing on September 2, 2026 the Fort Magistrate’s Court ordered the Director of the National Hospital to submit a report on Sallay’s current health condition, stating whether he required continued inpatient treatment or was fit to be discharged.

However, the court was informed today that the report had not been submitted.

It was also revealed that the required medical reports had not been provided to the five-member medical board appointed to assess Sallay’s health condition.

Accordingly, Magistrate Amarasena ordered the Director of the National Hospital to appear before court on September 22, 2026 and explain the failure to submit the report to court and provide the necessary documents to the medical board.

The order was issued after considering a request made by Additional Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris, who appeared on behalf of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Sallay is currently being held under a third 90-day detention order issued on August 25, 2026. He had previously been detained under two separate 90-day detention orders following his arrest.

The former intelligence chief was arrested by the CID in Peliyagoda on February 25, 2026, on suspicion of aiding and abetting the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks carried out on April 21, 2019.

Meanwhile, the Colombo Special Trial-at-Bar is scheduled to deliver its verdict on September 22, 2026, in the case filed against 24 defendants over the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks.