Weerasinghe v. Dissanayake and Others – sllr 1997 volume 1 page 406

In WEERASINGHE v. DISSANAYAKE AND OTHERS, the court addressed the issue of whether the transfer of a Sri Lanka Education Administrative Service officer from the North Central Provincial Council to the Ministry of Education and Higher Education contravened fundamental rights under Article 12(1) of the Constitution. It was determined that the petitioner did not fall within the categories requiring special procedural safeguards for transfer as stipulated in the Thirteenth Amendment’s Appendix III.3. The transfer was thus found to be within lawful authority, and the petition was dismissed. This holding reaffirmed the principle that certain officers, though serving in provincial councils, remain under the central control of the Public Service Commission, and their transfer need not adhere to pr