Sita Rajasingham v. Maureen Seneviratne and Another – sllr 1995 volume 2 page 069

In the case between Sita Rajasingham (Plaintiff) and Maureen Seneviratne and another (Defendants), the court addressed the issue of whether a petition filed under section 86 of the Civil Procedure Code can be rejected solely on the basis that documents were not stamped at the time of presentation, and if the law permits the supply of stamp duty after the prescribed period. It was held that, in the absence of an express or implied statutory requirement mandating stamping at the time of filing, the right to maintain proceedings should not be denied due to a purely technical failure to stamp the document initially. The principle reaffirmed was that statutory interpretation and precedent do not require immediate stamping for such petitions, and that deficiency in stamping can be rectified. Thi