Special Crime Investigation Unit vs Hennehaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Bandaranayake – CA PHC 89/2018-2023

In the case between the Special Crime Investigation Unit, Vehera, Kurunegala (Complainant, with the Hon. Attorney General’s Department for the Respondent side) and Henneheka Mudiyanselage Sunil Bandaranayake (Accused-Petitioner/Appellant), the court addressed whether an appellant, after exercising the right of appeal in the Magistrate Court and High Court, could file revision papers challenging a dismissed appeal. The legal issues pertained to amending a plaint in a criminal proceeding, procedural aspects of charge framing, and the doctrine of functus officio, which precludes a judge from revisiting a finalized judicial order. The court held that the revision application was not maintainable, reaffirming the principle that, following the conclusion of appellate procedures and dismissal of