Maldives police ordered to hunt for Abdulla Luthfee
15 May 2012, 6:35 PM
Hawwa Lubna
Maldives police are searching for Abdulla Luthfee who was given a life sentence for his role in the 1988 coup attempt.
The Home Ministry reported that Luthfee had escaped from the authorities while on a medical trip abroad.
According to the Home Ministry’s State Minister Mohamed Fayaaz, the former government authorised Luthfee to go to India in 2009 for medical treatment and he was supposed to return back by January 2010.
However, Fayaz told local media that he never returned and had escaped to Sri Lanka, where he was reported to be living under a false identity. Therefore the police had been asked to find Luthfee and hand him over to the Maldives Department of Penitentiary and Rehabilitation Services (DPRS).
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