Judge Ali Hameed, JA Hassan Saeed rejected as witnesses for Chief Justice

The Criminal Court on Sunday rejected the detained top court judge, Ali Hameed, and the judicial administrator, Hassan Saeed, as defence witnesses for the ongoing trial of the arrested Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed.

The chief justice along with Judge Hameed and JA Saeed were arrested in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on February 1, which had ordered the release of nine political prisoners. While all three face various charges in connection with the incident that the government has declared as a coup attempt, CJ Saeed is also indicted for obstructing the functioning of the state after he allegedly ordered to shut down the Supreme Court's Government E-Letter Management System (GEMS).