Napana Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage Bisomenike v. P.D. Keerthi Gamage, Provincial Land Commissioner (Acting), Department of the Provincial Land Commissioner, Anuradhapura – CA PHC/54/2007-2007

In the matter of Napana Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage Bisomenike (Respondent-Petitioner) versus P.D. Keerthi Gamage, Provincial Land Commissioner (Acting), Department of the Provincial Land Commissioner, Anuradhapura (Applicant-Respondent), the central issue was whether the Petitioner had lawful entitlement to occupy State land and whether grounds existed to challenge the notice of ejectment under the State Land Recovery of Possession Act No. 58 of 1981 and related statutes. It was held that absence of documentary entitlement and failure to contest the notice under proper legal grounds precluded the Petitioner from resisting ejectment, thus reaffirming the principle that revisionary jurisdiction is exercised only in exceptional circumstances and not as a substitute for an appeal. The determina