Rasammah v. Major General Perera and Others – sllr 1982 volume 1 page 030

In Rasammah v. Major General Perera and others, the court addressed the proper procedure under Article 141 of the Constitution relating to applications for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. The issue considered was whether the detained person’s body must be mandatorily produced before the Court of Appeal or an appropriate court before an inquiry into the legality of detention, the scope of judicial discretion in this context, and the issuance of notice based on the prima facie establishment of a case. It was held that production of the detained individual’s body is not required in every instance, and that the Court of Appeal retains broad discretion regarding the timing and necessity of such production, guided by established principles and case-specific circumstances. The decision relied on both hi