Jalisge Asiri Jayalath Wickramasinghe vs. Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) J. K. R. A. Perera – SC FR 229/2016-2025

In the case between Jalisge Asiri Jayalath Wickramasinghe (Plaintiff) and several senior police officials including the Inspector General of Police (Defendants), the court addressed the issue of whether the petitioner’s compulsory retirement on general medical grounds was justified in the context of his alleged injury sustained during a terrorist attack. It was held that insufficient contemporaneous medical evidence supported the petitioner’s claims, and the retirement decision based on the medical board’s and special committee’s findings was upheld. The principle reaffirmed is that, under Articles 12(1) and 126 of the Constitution, rights cannot be established without clear and credible evidence, and procedural time limits must be observed. This decision relied on constitutional requireme