Ruwan Keragala vs Blue Mountain Properties – WRIT/202/2020-2020

In the case between Blue Mountain Properties (Pvt) Ltd, Dr. Hiranya Saumi Hettiarachchi, and others (as petitioners and intervenient petitioners/creditors) against C.D. Wickremarathne, Inspector General of Police (Acting), the court addressed the issue of whether creditors—who were not included in the established compromise plan or the police complaint list—possessed locus standi to intervene in a writ application seeking to restrain police action. It was held that the intervenient petitioners lacked sufficient legal interest to intervene in the writ proceedings. The established principle reaffirmed was that the Court of Appeal Rules 1990 and relevant precedents do not authorize third-party interventions in writ applications unless direct legal interest is demonstrated. The decision relied