Haupe Liyan Arachchige Don Trilanka Priyadarshana v. Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC APN 26/2015-2015

In Haupe Liyan Arachchige Don Trilanka Priyadarshana v. Hon. Attorney General, the court addressed the issue of whether the petitioner, arrested based on information from another suspect with no recovery of contraband from his person, should be released on bail after prolonged remand detention. It was held that, considering the State Counsel’s withdrawal of objections and the lack of direct evidence against the petitioner, the prior High Court order refusing bail was set aside, and bail was granted with specific conditions. The principle reaffirmed is that prolonged detention without direct evidence, particularly in the absence of recovery, warrants judicial scrutiny and possible release on bail. This decision relied on earlier case precedents addressing similar factual matrices and emphas