Kakulandara Mudiyanselage Sarath Premachandra v. Director General, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption – CA PHC APN 134/2017-2017

In Director General, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption v. Kakulandara Mudiyanselage Sarath Premachandra, the court addressed the issue of whether a convicted individual, sentenced under four charges of the Bribery Act, should be granted bail on the basis of alleged exceptional circumstances, specifically his wife’s medical condition, raised for the first time on revision. It was held that material not previously presented before the High Court is not admissible at the revision stage and that the circumstances attributed to the accused’s wife did not amount to exceptional circumstances warranting bail. This decision reaffirmed the principle that revisionary relief on bail is strictly limited to substantive, previously advanced circumstances and cannot rely on be