Kumuduni Pandithasekara v. A.Sunil Weerasinghe et al. – CA WRIT/504/2011-2011

In the case between Kumuduni Pandithasekara (Petitioner) and A. Sunil Weerasinghe (Commissioner General, Department of Agrarian Development) and others (including N. Priyadarshini Gamage, Hon. Attorney General, and Chandrasena Ranasinghe as Respondents), the court addressed whether lawful authority existed under the Agrarian Development Act No — 46 of 2000 for conducting a second inquiry to re-value a paddy field after an initial decision under Section 2 had been made. It was held that the Act did not authorize a second re-valuation inquiry, and therefore, the Assistant Commissioner’s decision to re-value (document “P17”) was ultra vires and quashed. Relief by way of certiorari was granted in respect of quashing “P17,” but the request for mandamus to eject the 4th Respondent from the land