Bamunu Arachchige Pasasna Abhinithi Bamunu Arachchi vs Mrs. S.S.K. Aviruppola et al. – SC FR/39/19-2019

In the case between Bamunu Arachchige Pasasna Abhinithi Bamunu Arachchi (a minor represented by her mother) and Wijayasinghe Arachchige Udyoga Sanwarani Wijayasinghe (petitioners) and the representatives of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo 05 (including its Principal) and educational authorities (respondents), the court addressed whether the refusal to grant additional marks for “period of service in difficult schools” to a teacher, for the purpose of her child’s Grade One admission, constituted a violation of the fundamental rights under Article 12(1) of the Constitution. It was held that the petitioner had not substantiated that the primary section of Minneriya Central College qualified as a “difficult school” under the relevant circulars, and that no fundamental right had been infringed by th