The Judgment Of The Easter Sunday Attack… – SC FR 163/2019-2019

Brief
In the case between the Petitioners (victims and affected family members of the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, including Moratuwa Methodist Church and St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade) and the Respondents (former President Maithripala Sirisena, former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Hemasiri Fernando, former Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara, former Director of State Intelligence Service Nilantha Jayawardena, and others), the Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether the state and its security officials failed in their constitutional, statutory, and common law duties to protect fundamental rights by neglecting actionable intelligence prior to the Easter Sunday attacks. The Court held that the executive and security agencies did not act on clear intelligence wa