Wickremapalage Malith Susinidu & Others Vs The Officer in Charge Police Station, Rajanganaya & Others – CA BAIL/25/21-2022

In The Officer in Charge, Police Station, Rajanganaya & Attorney General of Sri Lanka v. Wickramapalage Malith Susinidu Piyumal Wickramapala, the court addressed whether bail should be granted to the 2nd Suspect-Petitioner under Section 10(1)(a) of the Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act No. 4 of 2015 in conjunction with the Bail Act No. 30 of 1997. The primary issue considered was the interpretation and applicability of “exceptional circumstances” as a prerequisite for the grant of bail. The sequence of events saw the petitioner and others allegedly threatening police officers inside a police station following a raid relating to a cannabis investigation. The court held that the petitioner’s assertion of the improbability of the incident did not rise to excep