Supreme Court backs down from issuing ruling on legality of selling pork and alcohol
12 Jan 2012, 9:41 PM
Eleanor Johnstone
The Supreme Court has rejected the government’s request for a consultative opinion over whether the Maldives can import pork and alcohol without violating the nation’s Shariah-based constitution.
Pork and alcohol are prohibited items under Shariah law.
The judges unanimously rejected the case on the grounds that the matter did not need to be addressed at the Supreme Court level.
The Court did note, however, that pork and alcohol have been imported under provisions of the Contraband Act and that there is a regulation in favor of the trade. As no law has declared the regulation unlawful, the import of pork and alcohol is indeed legal, the court claimed.
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