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 immediately (Sep 22).
Safety has additionally been beefed up within the space.
The case is filed in opposition to 24 accused over the collection of suicide bomb assaults focusing on church buildings and main vacationer motels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in 2019, which killed 224 folks, together with international nationals, and injured 584 others.
The decision can 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 gaggle of alleged Islamic extremists charged with finishing up the Easter Sunday assaults.
The Lawyer Basic 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 each 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 costs have been filed in opposition to the accused.
The prosecution was carried out by a crew comprising Senior Further Solicitor Basic and President’s Counsel Haripriya Jayasundera, Further Solicitor Basic and President’s Counsel Sudarshana De Silva, and Senior State Counsel Sajith Bandara, Shakthi Jagodaarachchi and Akila Dalpadadu, on behalf of the Lawyer Basic.
Lawyer-at-Legislation Kaneel Maddumage is showing for the first, 2nd, seventh, eighth, tenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, 18th and nineteenth accused, whereas Lawyer-at-Legislation Ravindu Yasas and Lawyer-at-Legislation Niroshan Siriwardena are showing for the twelfth and thirteenth accused.
Lawyer Laurence Adams and Lawyer Sanjeewa Ruwanpathirana are showing for the twentieth and twenty fifth accused.
The remaining accused don’t have authorized illustration and are showing in individual.
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