Randoge Asanthi Iresha Priyadarshani vs. Officer in Charge Police Station Gandara – CA BAIL 11/2022-2022

In the matter between Randoge Asanthi Iresha Priyadarshani (Petitioner, on behalf of the accused Randoluge Dinoj Theshan De Silva) and the Officer in Charge, Police Station, Gandara, and the Hon. Attorney General, the court examined whether bail should be granted under Section 10(1)(a) of the Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act, No. 4 of 2015, when the accused had not completed one year in remand. The primary holding determined that enforcing a strict one-year remand requirement, particularly where the underlying substantive criminal case was already concluded, would constitute a violation of the accused’s liberty interests. The legal analysis was grounded in the statutory purpose of the Act and the need to protect fundamental rights, concluding that bail cou