Anishika Nishani Hettiarachchi v. The Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC APN 68/2015-2016

In the case between Anishika Nishani Hettiarachchi (on behalf of W.A. Danush Dihara Perera, the 8th suspect) and the Hon. Attorney General, Attorney General’s Department, and the Officer in Charge, Police Narcotic Bureau, the court addressed whether the revisionary jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal should be exercised to set aside the High Court Judge’s order cancelling bail for the 8th suspect in a case involving 30 kilograms of heroin. It was held that exceptional circumstances had not been established to justify such revision or to reinstate bail. The decision reaffirmed the principle that revisionary jurisdiction is discretionary and invoked only in the presence of special or exceptional grounds, especially where an appellate remedy is available. Reliance was placed on statutory requ