Civil Court has issued an order to reinstate former Assistant Commissioner of Police Abdullah Fairoosh, former Chief Superintendent of Police Mohamed Riyaz and former Commander of the Special Operations (SO) Unit, Inspector of Police Abdulla Ibrahim Didi to the police service.
The order was issued after the Civil Court reached the verdict that their dismissal was unfair and biased.
Former ACP Fairoosh was dismissed from his post on the 23rd of October 2017 after Maldives Police Service (MPS) Disciplinary Board reviewed a tweet he had posted on the 15th of August, which was deemed to have defamed the Government.
“Are non-halal and haram the same thing?” his tweet regarding non-halal and haram wealth, read.
At the launching of the Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM)’s “Rumaalu 2” campaign site on the 14th of August 2017, then President Abdulla Yameen had stated that the money laundered from the MMPRC embezzlement case had not only entered his residence and that undoubtedly, it was “non-halal wealth”.
Fairoosh, who was serving as Chief Superintendent of Police in 2012, had served as Acting Commissioner of Police until a new one could be appointed following the overthrowal of former President Mohamed Nasheed’s government in February that year.
He was later promoted to the post of Assistant Commissioner of Police.
Former Chief Superintendent Riyaz had been dismissed from his position, on 7 Sepetember 2017, for his alleged close connection to then opposition. He was dismissed after evaluations from the police’s disciplinary board.
SO Didi was also dismissed after evaluations from the police’s disciplinary board, in April 2018. Police had confiscated his mobile phone as well.
Although the accusations against him are unclear, the police started investigating his case after the Supreme Court ruling on the 01st of February 2018, ordering the release of political detainees.
Civil Court issued the order to reinstate both Riyaz and Didi after Police agreed in court that the decision to dismiss them was not fair and the allegations put forward against them were not investigated by the police’s disciplinary board fairly.
