The Attorney General Vs. Kande Pun Shri Samantha – CA HCC 110/2024-2025

In the matter of the Attorney General v. Kande Pun Shri Samantha, the court addressed the issue of whether a petition of appeal was filed within the statutory period and if a time-barred appeal could be converted into a revision. The court held that the appeal was time-barred and that conversion to revision was not permissible under the circumstances, leading to the dismissal of the appeal. This decision reaffirmed the principle that statutory time limits for appeals must be adhered to, and conversion to revision requires specific justification, which was not present in this case. The decision relied on precedents concerning the conversion of out-of-time appeals to revisions, emphasizing that an unexplained delay in seeking revision would preclude such a conversion.

B. Sasi Mahendran,