PG to be served notice to respond to dismissal motion

The People’s Majlis committee has decided to serve a notice to Prosecutor General Hussain Shameem, to respond to the motion seeking his dismissal.

The Parliament’s Judiciary Committee is looking into the case.

Parliament on Tuesday received a motion seeking to dismiss the prosecutor general.

MP for Hulhudhoo constituency Mohamed Shahid submitted the motion, which was read out at the Judiciary Committee meeting held on Tuesday.

According to the ruling party’s lawmaker, some of the main reasons why Shameem should be sacked from his position include the decision to file the corruption case against former Minister of Sports Ahmed Mahloof as well as the sexual assault case against former Minister of Tourism Ali Waheed.

Other reasons cited by the MP include, the decision to not appeal the lower court’s verdict over the “safari rape case” that surfaced in 2020 as well as the decision to drop the charges of human trafficking, raised against former MP for Milandhoo constituency Ali Riza.

Further, the MP cited the decision to drop charges in connection with several cases linked to alcohol consumption and mentioned that Shameem took to social media platform Instagram to share a picture of a bottle of alcohol.

The motion also highlighted that Shameem had refused to investigate alleged same-sex relations by a lawyer at the PG Office, alongside the decision to prosecute some and not other suspects in connection with the case linked to Alamgiri and issues with the ventilator case.

As such, the PG’s decision to not pursue charges in the ventilator corruption case was also cited as a reason.

Another reason cited by the parliamentarian was that there was discrimination among PG Office employees.

Citing all these reasons, MP Shahid has moved to oust PG Shameem.

The proposal was unanimously approved by the committee members to probe the matter further.

Members who attended Wednesday’s committee meeting unanimously approved to serve a notice to Shameem to respond to the motion.

Shameem is to be served a five-day motion to respond to the dismissal motion.