Colonel P.K.D.C. Alwis, et al. v. Lieutenant General N.U.M.M.W. Senanayake, et al. – CA WRIT 0346/2019-2022

In the case between Colonel P.K.D.C. Alwis, Lieutenant Colonel S.G. Hewawitharana, and Lieutenant Colonel E.M.U.W.L. Boyagoda (Petitioners) and Lieutenant General N.U.M.M.W. Senanayake, Lieutenant General L.H.S.C. Silva, Major General S.W.L. Daulagala, and others (Respondents), the court addressed the entitlement of former civil servants, later commissioned officers in the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force and National Cadet Corps, to an Army pension under the Army Pensions and Gratuities Code as opposed to a civil service pension. It was held that petitioners’ prior civil service must be aggregated with their subsequent military service to determine eligibility for an Army pension. This reaffirmed the legal principle that reckonable service for Army pension purposes encompasses the combined