Perera vs District Scout Commissioner and Others – sllr 2020 volume 1 page 405

In the case between Galkandage Sahasra Sandeepa Perera (petitioner) and the Wattala-Ja-Ela District Scout Commissioner, the Chief Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Scout Association, and related respondents, the central issue concerned whether the denial of the President’s Scout Award by the Sri Lanka Scout Association constituted an infringement of the petitioner’s fundamental right to equality under Article 12(1) of the Constitution. The claim further examined whether the conduct of the Association amounted to “executive or administrative action” amenable to fundamental rights jurisdiction under Articles 17 and 126. The findings established that the Sri Lanka Scout Association and its statutory Council operate as self-regulating entities not qualifying as agencies or organs of the State. App