The 15 convicts discovered responsible within the Easter Sunday terror assault case have every been sentenced to 220 years of rigorous imprisonment by the Colombo Everlasting Excessive Court docket Trial-at-Bar.
The court docket additionally ordered to confiscate the movable and immovable belongings of the convicts with impact from right this moment (Sep. 22).
The 15 convicts sentenced to 220 years of rigorous imprisonment every are :
- Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Naufar alias Naufar Mawlavi
- Mohamed Saribu Adham Lebbe alias Gafoor Mama
- Hayathu Mohamed Ahmed Milhan
- Mohamed Ibrahim Sadiq Abdullah
- Mohamed Ibrahim Hafiz Abdul Haq
- Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Rizkan
- Mohamed Mansoor Mohamed Sanasdeen
- Abdul Manaf Mohamed Firdous
- Mohamed Rameez Mohamed Saajith
- Abdul Latheef Mohamed Safi
- Husainul Rizvi Khalid Sameer
- Mohamed Hanifa Zainul Abdeen
- Mohamed Mustafa Mohamed Haris
- Razik Raza Hussain
- Kachchi Mohamed Mohamed Jemsith
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Earlier replace printed at 2026/09/22 at 5:38 pm
Easter Sunday bombings case : 15 out of 24 discovered responsible (Replace)
The Colombo Excessive Court docket Trial-at-Bar right this moment (Sep. 22) delivered its long-awaited verdict within the Easter Sunday terror assaults trial in opposition to 24 defendants together with Naufer Moulavi.
Accordingly, 15 defendants together with Moulavi have been discovered responsible whereas the remaining 9 defendants have been ordered to be acquitted and launched.
The 15 convicts, who face 23,270 expenses, are to be sentenced later right this moment.
The Easter Sunday assaults passed off on April 21, 2019, when coordinated suicide bombings focused three church buildings and three resorts throughout a number of components of Sri Lanka.
The assaults killed 224 folks, together with numerous international nationals, whereas over 500 individuals sustained accidents within the explosions.
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Earlier information printed on 2026/09/22 at 9:59 am
Easter Sunday bombings : Accused delivered to court docket as verdict due right this moment
The accused of the Easter Sunday terror assault case, together with Naufer Moulavi have been introduced earlier than the Hulftsdorp Excessive Court docket the decision is to be delivered by the Colombo Everlasting Excessive Court docket Trial-at-Bar right this moment (Sep 22).
Safety has additionally been beefed up within the space.
The case is filed in opposition to 24 accused over the sequence of suicide bomb assaults concentrating on church buildings and main vacationer resorts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in 2019, which killed 224 folks, together with international nationals, and injured 584 others.
The decision shall be delivered by the three-member Excessive Court docket bench comprising Justices Navaratne Marasinghe (Chairman), Sujeewa Nishshanka and Ramanathan Kannan.
A complete of 31 instances have been filed in reference to the Easter Sunday terrorist assaults, whereas investigations are underway in opposition to a number of different people over allegations together with aiding and abetting and conspiracy in reference to the incident.
The case has been filed in opposition to a bunch of alleged Islamic extremists charged with finishing up the Easter Sunday assaults.
The Legal professional Common had filed the case in opposition to 25 accused, together with Mohammadu Ibrahim Mohamed Naufer alias Naufer Moulavi.
Yasir Baba Abdul Rauf, who was named because the seventeenth accused, has since died.
Accordingly, the case is being heard in opposition to 24 accused.
Because the court docket had determined to listen to the case every day, the recording of proof was accomplished after 03 years.
The prosecution case commenced on Oct. 10, 2023, and by the point the prosecution concluded its case on Aug. 13, 2026, proof had been recorded over a complete of 249 full court docket days.
Though 2,309 witnesses had been listed within the indictment introduced by the prosecution in opposition to the accused, solely round 547 witnesses have been known as in the course of the trial.
A complete of 23,270 expenses have been filed in opposition to the accused.
The prosecution was performed by a group comprising Senior Extra Solicitor Common and President’s Counsel Haripriya Jayasundera, Extra Solicitor Common and President’s Counsel Sudarshana De Silva, and Senior State Counsel Sajith Bandara, Shakthi Jagodaarachchi and Akila Dalpadadu, on behalf of the Legal professional Common.
Legal professional-at-Regulation Kaneel Maddumage is showing for the first, 2nd, seventh, eighth, tenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, 18th and nineteenth accused, whereas Legal professional-at-Regulation Ravindu Yasas and Legal professional-at-Regulation Niroshan Siriwardena are showing for the twelfth and thirteenth accused.
Legal professional Laurence Adams and Legal professional Sanjeewa Ruwanpathirana are showing for the twentieth and twenty fifth accused.
The remaining accused wouldn’t have authorized illustration and are showing in individual.
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