Officer-in-Charge, Minor Offence Branch, Cinnamon Gardens Police Station vs Liyanage Justin Perera – CA PHC/120/2013-2016

In the case between Officer-in-Charge, Minor Offence Branch, Cinnamon Gardens Police Station, Colombo 07, and the Hon. Attorney General, Colombo 12 (Complainant/Respondent), and Liyanage Justin Perera (Accused-Petitioner-Appellant), the court addressed whether sentences imposed across multiple cheating convictions under section 400 of the Penal Code could be ordered to run concurrently through a revision application and whether “exceptional circumstances” were demonstrated to warrant the exercise of revisionary jurisdiction after appellate remedies had lapsed. It was held that concurrent sentencing is not permissible when convictions arise from separate trials and that exceptional circumstances are a prerequisite for invoking revisionary jurisdiction. The decision reaffirmed that the revis