MD Alamgir, a sex offender recently arrested for multiple counts of sexual misconduct, has pleaded guilty to three of the charges he is facing for a lenient sentence.
Alamgir, a Bangladeshi expatriate, was brought under custody as a prime suspect for engaging in same sex act with multiple individuals. Several videos which showed the suspected individual engaged in acts of homosexuality with multiple men, many of them allegedly locals, had previously rotated across various social media platforms.
Meanwhile, three local men have been charged with sexual misconduct in relation to the same case. The three include Nazim Sattar, a local advocate and the brother of Maldives Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, Mohamed Nasheed, a former MP of Nolhivaram constituency and Abdul Rahman Rafeeu, a local policeman.
All suspects are charged under the Maldives penal code. Meanwhile the Sexual Offenses Act also covers acts of homosexuality under sexual misconduct.
Acts of homosexuality in consent of both parties is subject to a prison term between five to seven years, in accordance with the Maldives Sexual Offenses Act. Based on the statute, the same act with one party not consenting to the act will result in the guilty party facing a prison sentence between seven to 10 years.
However, the alleged individuals will face less than a year's prison term owing to their charges pressed based on the penal code; which carries a lesser sentence. The degree of proof, at the highest degree, require prosecution to provide either the testimonies of four reasonable and uncompromised witnesses or forensic evidence, particularly DNA, or a direct confession of the alleged party.
The case has been fast-tracked after Alamgir, the central suspect of the case, confessed to the offenses. The next hearing of the case will deliver the sentence. Suspects pleading guilty of confessing to their offenses generally will face leniencies on their prison sentences.
The Maldivian judicial system demands all cases revolving sexual misconduct be proceeded discreetly, which has intervened in court hearings of the case kept hidden from public consumption.
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