New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- COLOMBO - Seven years after suicide bombers killed 260 people across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, two of the country's most senior security officials have been sentenced to death for their role in letting it happen.

Sri Lanka's High Court handed down death sentences Friday to Pujith Jayasundara, the country's former national police chief, and Hemasiri Fernando, who served as secretary to the defence ministry, in a 2-1 verdict that reversed their 2022 acquittal. Both men were found guilty of criminal negligence for failing to act on intelligence provided by India more than two weeks before the attacks, Al Jazeera reported.

The Indian intelligence service alerted Sri Lankan authorities on April 4, 2019, about a planned...