Ganegodage Supun Lakshan vs. The Officer-In-Charge Police Station, Kottawa and The Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC/APN 0043/23-2023

In the case between Ganegodage Supun Lakshan (Accused-Appellant/Petitioner) and the Officer-In-Charge, Police Station, Kottawa and the Hon. Attorney General (Respondents), the court addressed whether the grounds advanced by the petitioner constituted exceptional circumstances sufficient to invoke revisionary jurisdiction under Article 138 of the Constitution. It was held that the petitioner’s application failed to meet the threshold of exceptional circumstances necessary for such intervention, reaffirming the principle that revisionary jurisdiction is to be exercised only in the presence of extraordinary legal or factual error. This decision relied on established case law and statutory interpretation, emphasizing that appellate and revisionary remedies cannot be substituted unless clear an