Hewa Pedige Raasinghe and 25 others vs Hon. Attorney-General and 03 others – CA WRIT APPLICATION NO.505/2011-2013

The case between Hewa Pedige Raasinghe and others (Petitioners) and the Hon. Attorney-General, Commissioner of Examinations, and others (Respondents) addressed the issue of the legality of conducting a single common competitive examination for the recruitment of Agricultural Officers, instead of two separate examinations as prescribed by the relevant Service Minute and Gazette notification. It was held that the examination process, despite employing a common question paper, maintained separate evaluations and selections for the open and limited streams, thereby not violating statutory requirements or prejudicing the Petitioners. The principle reaffirmed was that procedural compliance under the relevant Service Minute must be assessed based on the actual conduct and effect of the examinatio