Jayasinghe Arachchilage Karunathilaka Jayasinghe vs The Director General of Bribery Commission – CA 113/2018-2022

In the case between Jayasinghe Arachchilage Karunathilaka Jayasinghe (Accused-Appellant) and The Director General, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (Complainant-Respondent), the court addressed whether the conviction for soliciting and accepting a bribe in connection with a school admission was legally valid, given claims that the trial judge relied on inadmissible evidence of bad character and failed to apply the requisite standard of proof. It was held that reliance on unsupported character evidence had resulted in a miscarriage of justice, thereby warranting the quashing of the conviction. The court reaffirmed the principle that evidence of bad character is generally inadmissible unless good character is raised by the defense, as outlined in sections 53 and