High Court judge suspended over Rilwan abduction

Hassan Ali, who was controller of immigration at the time, is suspected of working with two police intelligence officers to forge a travel document in a bid to create fake news about the missing journalist leaving the country and dying overseas.

In a press brief, the Judicial Service Commission – a 10-member oversight body tasked with investigating complaints and taking disciplinary action against judges – said Hassan Ali was suspended after the presidential commission on deaths and disappearances officially informed the watchdog on Monday that he was under investigation.

According to the inquiry commission’s draft report, corporal Mohamed Jinah and corporal Mohamed Riffath met Hassan Ali in late 2014 at the behest of an unnamed top government official and told him that “the story about Rilwan needs to end.”