W.A.N.S.L. Wijesinghe and Others v. Surveyor General & Others – SC FR APPLICATION NO. 101/2014-2019

Brief

The case between Herath Mudiyanselage Ajith Rohitha Bandara Herath, Weerasooriya Arachchilage Padmini Damayanthi Weerasooriya, J.M.N. Bandara (and others) and the Surveyor General of Sri Lanka with other officials addressed whether the placement of Petitioners in the priority list for cadastral survey assignments under the Bim Saviya programme constituted arbitrary and discriminatory treatment in contravention of Article 12(1) of the Constitution. It was determined that the method utilized to calculate “effective work progress” and the resultant categorization of surveyors was reasonable, non-arbitrary, and consistent with the established selection criteria. This conclusion reaffirmed the principle that administrative decisions based on transparent and predetermined objective benchm