Shaul Hameed and Another v. Ranasinghe and Others – sllr 1990 volume 1 page 104

In SHAUL HAMEED AND ANOTHER v. RANASINGHE AND OTHERS, the dispute centered on police intervention in a property dispute between the petitioners, Shaul Hameed and another, and several respondents, including police officers and S.S. Ranasinghe. The court examined whether the police, in the exercise of statutory powers under the Penal Code and Police Ordinance, had exceeded their authority and engaged in deliberate discrimination in favor of the 5th Respondent, thereby violating the petitioners’ right to equal protection under Article 12(1) of the Constitution. It was held that the police had acted with undue partiality and facilitated a consistent breach of the peace against the petitioners, overstepping the limits of their lawful mandate by intervening in a civil dispute and misreporting ma