Tissa Attanayake v. Dayananda Dissanayake – CA 73/2011-2011

In the case between Tissa Attanayake and Lalan Sudath Manju Sri Arangala (Petitioners) and Dayananda Dissanayake (Commissioner of Elections), J.A.S.P. Jayasinge (Returning Officer Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha Area), A.D. Susil Premajayantha, M. Tilvin Silva and others (Respondents), the court addressed the legality of the rejection of the United National Party’s nomination papers for the 2011 Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha elections. The court held that failure to provide an affidavit properly attested with the signature of a Justice of the Peace constitutes a valid statutory ground for rejection of a nomination paper, and that due process was followed. This decision reaffirmed the principle that mandatory statutory requirements, particularly those concerning election documentation under section 2