ORDER

B. Sasi Mahendran, J.

The Petitioner filed this revision application praying inter alia to revise the order of the Learned Judge of the Provincial High Court of Eastern, holden in Ampara by order dated 19.07.2024, dismissing the Petitioner’s application that the Petitioner has failed to establish any exceptional circumstances and that the order is illegal, which shocks the conscience of the Court.

The relevant excerpt of the said order is reproduced below for easy reference;

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“තවද ඉහත කරුණුවලට අමතරව ⷁᮅතිශ ෝධන ශෙත්සමකට අදාලව අධිකරණය විසින් මුලිකව සලකා බැලිය යුතු ⷁᮅධාන තත්වයක් වන සුවිශ ේෂී කරුණු ඉදිරිෙත් වීමක්ද අදාළ ⷁᮅතිශ ෝධන ශෙත්සශමහි ඉදිරිෙත් කර තිශබන කරුණු ශකශරහි අවධානය ශයාමු කිරීශේදී ශෙනී ශනායයි.”

Against the said order, the Petitioner has invoked the revisionary jurisdiction of this Court in terms of Article 138 of the Constitution.

The question that we are faced with is whether this Court can exercise its revisionary jurisdiction in respect of the order of the High Court of the Provinces in the exercise of its revisionary jurisdiction in terms of Article 154P (3) (b) of the Constitution.

Originally, the revisionary jurisdiction was vested with the Court of Appeal under Ar