Hainan Lanka Company (Private) Limited vs Victor Samaraweera et al. – CA WRIT APPLICATION NO:- 62/2013-2013

The case between Hainan Lanka Company (Private) Limited and the National Transport Commission with its officials addressed the issue of whether exclusion of the petitioner from a government tender—specifically for failure to adhere to a delivery period stipulated in the tender—was amenable to judicial review by way of writ. It was held that noncompliance with a critical tender condition (the 21-day delivery requirement) warranted rejection of the petitioner’s bid, and that the alleged statutory character of procurement guidelines did not override the contractual nature of the dispute. This determination relied on the express terms of the tender documents and the established principle that courts do not intervene in purely contractual matters via writ, underscoring that a writ cannot be use