In a majority determination, a three-judge bench dominated that former police chief Pujith Jayasundara and former defence ministry secretary Hemasiri Fernando failed of their duties to cease the lethal assaults, blamed on a homegrown Islamist extremist group.
Jayasundara, 66, and Fernando, 76, can enchantment towards the sentence within the Supreme Courtroom, however have been remanded to judicial custody till granted bail.
Sri Lanka has not carried out the demise sentence since 1976, sustaining an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment.
There are at the very least 800 individuals on demise row, in response to authorities figures shared with parliament in February, with sentences normally commuted to life imprisonment.
Friday’s judgement on the particular fast-track court docket got here after the state appealed towards a 2022 determination that acquitted the duo.
The court docket was advised through the proceedings that an Indian intelligence company had alerted Sri Lanka on April 4, 2019 to a doable suicide assault by Islamist extremists, however authorities did not take motion.
