Mohomed Akbar Lakmini Arinodani Vs. Office in-charge Aduruppuweediya and others – CA PHC APN 35/2012-2012

In the case between Mohomed Akbar Lakmini Arinodani (Petitioner) and the Office in-charge, Aduruppuweediya, Colombo 13 and Hon. Attorney General, Colombo 12 (Respondents), the court addressed the tenability of revising a High Court order that refused bail on exceptional grounds. It was held that the application for revision was not sustainable, as the alleged exceptional circumstances (the petitioner’s sick child) were unsupported by documentary evidence and not adequately pleaded in the original bail application to the High Court. Further, the issue was raised that the accused had already been indicted in the High Court, making that court the proper forum for such an application. This outcome reaffirmed the principle that revisionary jurisdiction is not available in the absence of properl