Politics

Police continue investigation of opposition leaders; criminal court denies arrest warrant

14 Jul 2010, 6:48 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Youth Minister Hassan Latheef has said that police have commenced another investigation into the activities of People’s Alliance (PA) party leader Abdulla Yameen and Jumhoory Party (JP) leader Gasim ‘Buruma’ Ibrahim.
Latheef said police had requested the criminal court issue a warrant for the arrest warrant of the pair, but this was denied.
”The criminal court declined to issue the warrant saying there were no grounds to issue an arrest warrant for the second time,’’ said Latheef. ”But this is a whole different case.’’
Latheef said that when police requested the criminal court issue the arrest warrant, the court referred to the recent case and issued a statement signed by the chief judge of the criminal court denying the police request.

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