N and A Engineering Services Private Limited vs People’s Bank – CA WRIT 603/2021-2024

In the case between N and A Engineering Services Private Limited (and associated petitioners, including Y.N. Premasiri) and People’s Bank (with its Chairman, Directors, and officials), the court addressed the maintainability of a writ application challenging a bank resolution and subsequent actions relating to the auction and vesting of lands. The court held that the writ application seeking certiorari and mandamus was not maintainable because the impugned resolution had already been enforced, rendering the requested relief ineffectual and futile. The principle reaffirmed is that prerogative writs shall not issue when such orders would be moot due to prior execution of the challenged acts. This decision relied on established precedents governing the futility doctrine in appellate relief, u