High Court has rejected Anti Corruption Commission (ACC)'s request to issue an order to halt promotions given to police officers.
High Court has rejected Anti Corruption Commission (ACC)'s request to issue an order to halt promotions given to police officers.
Police commenced granting promotions to officers in 2023, and continued doing so despite ACC ordering them in October 2023 to cease granting promotions.
ACC then raised the matter at the Civil Court, seeking a temporary halt on issuing promotions until the case was concluded. The Civil Court ruled in December 2023 that they cannot issue such an order.
ACC then appealed the Civil Court's ruling at the High Court. The High Court ruled that the losses ACC claims would have been caused if a halt on promotions was not ordered is a matter the Civil Court should have considered when hearing the actual case. They further said that the ACC has not outlined the losses that would be faced by them if a temporary order is not issued at the present time.
The ruling said that police promotions have already been granted, and the ACC has not defined what impact issuing a halt order now would have on the end result. Hence, the three judges on the bench unanimously ruled that such an order cannot be issued now.
The High Court, however, voided Civil Court's ruling in the case where they rejected the request for a temporary order. This was due to lack of citing reasons for refusal to issue the order, and because the Civil Court had acted in the matter of issuing temporary order in the manner they should have acted on in reaching a decision on the actual case.
The High Court bench hearing the case included Judge Mohamed Shaneez Abdulla, Judge Mohamed Saleem and Judge Mohamed Faisal.
The incumbent government has also advocated in High Court that ACC's orders in the case of police promotions do not have to be complied with.
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