Supreme Court has returned back the appeal filed by former Defense Minister Colonel (Rtd) Mohamed Nazim. The case was filed in Supreme Court last Thursday.
Nazim's brother Adam Azim said the Court had returned the case back, stating that the signature on the documents and the one on Nazim's ID card did not match. He added that the forms will be revised and submitted tomorrow.
Additional evidence had been submitted to the appeal. Nazim's lawyer Husnu Suood said the lower Court had decreed that the evidence submitted by the defense had failed to present sufficient evidence to back the defense's stance that the weapons found in the residence of the ex- Defense Minister belonged to him. As such, the Court said there was no legal grounds to warrant a change in the verdict and was unanimously agreed on by all the Judges of the bench.
Husnu Suood said the individual who had originally planted the weapon in the former Minister's residence, G. Enif, had been discovered. However, he had refrained from publicly revealing who the person was. Suood said the details of the individual were revealed to Nazim, who is currently in jail serving his sentence, and had shared the details with the legal team.
Suood said the legal team has filed a request to Supreme Court to issue an injunction and summon the individual to court to give his witness statement. The individual was not part of the initial discovery to the lower court case. Normally, a witness or evidence that had not been listed as part of the discovery in the lower court hearing, it cannot be accepted in the appeal process, either in High Court or Supreme Court. However, the legal precedent for accepting such new discoveries, had been set in the cases run on former Dhiggaru Constituency MP Ahmed Nazim and the Supreme Court review of the 2013 elections result.
