Man sentenced to six months imprisonment for skinny dipping in Artificial Beach
25 Apr 2011, 7:46 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Criminal Court has sentenced a man to six months imprisonment after he was found guilty of ‘skinny dipping’ (swimming naked) in the Artificial Beach in Male’.
The Court said that Ali Niushad, of Henveiru Saarokuge’, had confessed to the crime and found him guilty of “objecting to order”.
In the Court, Niushad confessed that on February 26 he removed all of his clothes and went skinny dipping at 5:30am that morning.
The Criminal Court said his action violated article 88[a] of the Penal Code.
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