Ranasinghe Arachchige Nadeesha Seuwandi Ranasinghe and Mohamed Huwais Mohamed Naleef vs. Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Limited and others – SC FR 244/2017-2019

In the case between Ranasinghe Arachchige Nadeesha Seuwandi Ranasinghe and Mohamed Huwais Mohamed Naleef (petitioners) and Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Limited, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development, and the Attorney General (respondents), the Court addressed whether the petitioners’ fundamental rights application concerning non-granting of a promotion was time barred under Article 126(2) of the Constitution. The holding determined that the application was not time barred, as the pendency of an investigation by the Human Rights Commission, initiated within one month of knowledge of the alleged infringement, suspends the statutory time limit. This principle was reaffirmed by interpreting Section 13(1) of the Human Rights Commission Act in conjunction with the constitutional