The Mandhu College campus in capital city Malé has on Tuesday been vandalized. 

College chairman Ibrahim Ismail first revealed this through a tweet at 1:39am. Photographs show that the glass door at the college entrance had been shattered. 

The Maldives Police Service is yet to comment on the matter, although officers had on Monday removed a group of men that protested in front of the college. 

The men called for Mandhu College to be closed down and chairman Ismail to be apprehended for 'apostasy'. 

Ismail has been embroiled in controversy after local sensationalist news website Vaguthu published a report about his alleged criticism of Islam. 

Vaguthu claims Ismail slandered the prophet Muhammad in a tweet, although he says his comments have been taken out of context and 'twisted'.

Ismail was last week interrogated by the police and Vaguthu's article has caused considerable discussion online. 

Ismail is a former parliamentarian and in addition to having been instrumental in constructing the Maldivian constitution, adopted in 2008, introduced several seminal laws, such as the laws on independence of the media and freedom of assembly.