The Criminal Court has cancelled its hearing on terrorism allegations against former polie commissioner Ahmed Areef.
The hearing was scheduled for 1:00pm on Thursday. The Criminal Court has not provided a reason for cancelling the hearing.
The hearing held for the case earlier this month had also been cancelled. The least hearing in the case was held on May 13th.
The former police commissioner has denied all allegations put forth against him.
Areef is accused of terrorism for allegedly ‘conspiring to overthrow the government’ and in the last hearing he said the charges were baseless.
The former commissioner was dismissed from duty hours after the Maldives Police Service announced that they are working to implement a controversial Supreme Court order.
Areef asked in court how working to influence a court order issued by the top legal authority in the country is in anyway akin to terrorism.
The government maintains that the contentious court order, which ordered the release of nine unfairly detained individuals, is part of a long-laid plan to overthrow the government.
Two Supreme Court justices and former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom along with a number of other parliamentarians and public officials have been put on trial for being responsible for what President Abdulla Yameen said was a ‘judicial coup’.
