Loki Appukuttige Thilak Kumara vs. Officer in Charge and Attorney General – CA PHC/APN/108/2019-2022

In the case between the Officer in Charge, Police Station Veyangoda, and Loki Appukuttige Thilak Kumara (with Lukuappukutige Prabath Prasanna Kumara as substituted petitioner), the court addressed whether revisionary jurisdiction should be exercised to set aside the High Court of Gampaha’s order convicting and sentencing the first respondent under Section 365 of the Penal Code. The core legal issue involved the availability of revision as a remedy in circumstances of an unexplained delay and non-utilization of the appeal process, as well as the requirement for exceptional circumstances. It was held that revision is an extraordinary remedy, only to be invoked where no alternative remedy exists or where clear exceptional circumstances justify such intervention, and where any delay is satisfa