Former Eagles goal keeper Ibrahim Labaan Shareef has failed case against Criminal Court over delay in announcing verdict. Labaan was arrested on charges of assaulting a Police officer in the May Day protests of last year.
Labaan has been charged with physically assaulting a Police officer by using weapons. The hearings of the case had been concluded on November 30, last year.
The case filed in Civil Court states that Criminal Court had failed to announce a verdict and as such was in direct violation of clause numbers 42, 43 and 51 of the Constitution. The case had submitted a formal request to order Criminal Court to announce a verdict within a month.
The filed makes the appeal to order Criminal Court to issue the verdict, quoting clause 43, subsection (c) of the Constitution which states that no individual(s) may be subject to loss of rights due to an administrative decision and that the party can file to reclaim that lost rights.
