Lanka AG office admits it failed to advise anti-terror authorities on banning NTJ, its website | World News, The Indian Express

Lanka AG office admits it failed to advise anti-terror authorities on banning NTJ, its website | World News, The Indian Express

By PTI |Colombo |Published: July 28, 2019 2:46:29 pm

Lanka AG office admits it failed to advise anti-terror authorities on banning NTJ, its website

The NTJ has been blamed for the Easter Sunday bombings, the country's worst terror attack that killed 258 people at three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo on April 21.

The NTJ has been blamed for the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people at three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo on April 21.. (File/Reuters)

Sri Lanka’s Attorney General Department has admitted that it failed to provide advises to the Terrorism Investigation Division regarding possibilities of banning the local Islamist extremist group National Thowheed Jamat (NTJ), its website and social media accounts, according to a media report.