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P. PADMAN SURASENA, J.
On 21-04-2019, seven incidents of suicide bomb explosions occurred in seven different places of this country. These explosions claimed the lives of 268 people and caused injuries to 586 people. The Victims were those gathered at three churches namely: St. Anthony’s Church, Kochchikade, Colombo; St. Sebastian’s Church, Katuwapitiya in Negombo; Zion Church, Batticaloa, as well as those gathered at four hotels namely: Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo; Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo; Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo; and New Tropical Inn, Dehiwala.
In relation to the above suicide explosions, the Accused-Respondent who held office as the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the country, stood indicted before High Court-at-Bar under 855 counts. The charges in these 855 counts could be categorized and tabulated in the following manner:
| Places of the Suicide Bomb Attacks and the Names of the suicide bombers. | Description of Charges. | Count Nos. in the indictment. | |
| 1. | Place: Shangri La, Colombo 01 Names of the suicide bombers: 1. Mohamad Cassim Mohamad Zahran alias Zahran Hashim 2. Mohamad Ibrahim Ilham Mohamad | Facilitating the suicide bomb attack by i l l egal omission to prevent the commi | |
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