SriLanka, Aug. 15 -- The practice of marking sensitive intelligence information as FNA (For Necessary Action) and passing it down does not release a senior officer from accountability, Additional Solicitor General(ASG) Dileepa Peiris has said, explaining the basis for the recent death sentences handed down to former Inspector General Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando over the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks.

Peiris, who led the prosecution against the former IGP, said intelligence on the coming attacks was received on April 4, 2019, and communicated by the Chief of State Intelligence to the IGP in a written message dated April 9, 2019. That message was forwarded by the IGP to four departments, including the Min...