COLOMBO, Aug. 24 -- The Colombo Permanent Trial-at-Bar has fixed September 22 to deliver its verdict in the case against 25 individuals accused of conspiring to carry out the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks and of aiding and abetting the bombings.

The date was announced on Monday (24) by the three-member Colombo High Court bench hearing the case.

The Attorney General has filed 23,270 charges against the 25 accused, including conspiracy, aiding and abetting, possession and collection of arms and ammunition, and attempted murder under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Naufer Moulavi is among those named as an accused.

The charges relate to alleged links between the accused and National Thowheeth Jama'ath, the extremist group responsible...