Tiran P.C. Alles vs The Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC APN : 140/2016-2016

In the case between The Hon. Attorney General of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and Tiran P.C. Alles (with other accused including Anthony Emil Lakshmi Kanthan, Roshan Saliya Abesinghe Wickramasuriya, and Jayantha Dias Samarasinghe), the court addressed the legality of remanding the accused under Section 5(1) of the Offences Against Public Property Act No. 12 of 1982. The central issues concerned whether the property in question qualified as “public property,” the relevance and applicability of the Bail Act as special legislation (thereby circumventing the “exceptional circumstances” requirement for bail), and whether the High Court’s remand order was properly justified in light of the accused’s health, absence of prosecutorial objection, and a prior Supreme Court directive