බෙදුණු තීන්දුවකින් මරණ දඬුවම” (death sentence by a split decision) කියන්නේ විනිසුරුවන් සියලු දෙනාම එකම මතයක නොසිටි අවස්ථාවක ලබාදෙන තීන්දුවක්.
Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara was sentenced to death by a majority decision of a three-judge bench of the Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar after being found guilty of criminal negligence, dereliction of duty and aiding murder over the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks.
The verdict was delivered on Friday by the three-judge bench, which heard the case filed by the Attorney General over allegations that Jayasundara failed to act on prior intelligence warnings of imminent terror attacks despite having received the information before the Easter Sunday bombings.
The prosecution argued that the former police chief’s failure to take preventive action despite available intelligence amounted to criminal negligence and contributed to the attacks that killed hundreds of people and injured many others.
The case had initially resulted in Jayasundara’s acquittal in 2022, but the Supreme Court later overturned that decision and ordered the trial to continue, leading to Friday’s verdict.
2022දී වසරේ අදාළ නඩුවෙන් විත්තිකරුවන් දෙදෙනා නිදොස් කොට නිදහස් කිරීමට ත්රිපුද්ගල මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරු මඩුල්ලක් තීරණය කළ අතර ඊට එරෙහිව නීතිපතිවරයා ගොනුකළ අභියාචනය සම්බනධයෙන් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය ලබාදුන් නියෝගය ප්රකාරව මෙම නඩුවේ විත්තියේ සාක්ෂි කැඳවීම යළි සිදු කෙරුණි.
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