Wellangahagoda Gedara Roshan Wajira Kumara vs The Officer-in-charge Police Station Nittabuwa and Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC APN NO: 122/2013-2014

In the case between Wellangahagoda Gedara Roshan Wajira Kumara (Accused-Petitioner) and the Officer-in-charge, Police Station, Nittabuwa, and the Hon. Attorney General (Respondents), the court addressed whether the petitioner was entitled to relief where material facts regarding a period of imprisonment were not fully disclosed in an application. It was determined that the petitioner’s omission to disclose the fact of having served a term of imprisonment during the period claimed as remand custody amounted to a lack of candor and failure to approach the court with “clean hands.” The legal principle reaffirmed was that full disclosure is required for equitable relief, and applications based on misleading or incomplete statements are not entitled to relief. This outcome was grounded in estab