Rathnayake and Others vs University Grants Commission and Others – sllr 2008 volume 2 page 272

In the case between Rathnayake and others (petitioners) and the University Grants Commission, the Institute of Technology of the University of Moratuwa, and others (respondents), the court considered whether Rule 6.2 governing withdrawal deadlines from the National Diploma in Technology (NDT) course had been properly and uniformly applied. The key issue concerned the interpretation of the requirement to withdraw “within a period of 30 days from the last date for registration” and whether the respondents’ refusal of the petitioners’ applications on the grounds of varying registration dates was arbitrary and unreasonable. After examining the evidence, it was held that the Institute of Technology’s allocation of multiple “last dates” for registration, rather than a uniform cut-off, created in