A prosecution witness told the court on Monday that he had screams the night journalist Ahmed Rilwan was abducted but insisted that he had not seen any of the suspects.
The Maldives Independent reporter Rilwan went missing nearly four years ago and his disappearance remains arguably the biggest unsolved mystery in the archipelago.
Prosecutors have charged two men - Ahmed Aalif Rauf and Mohamed Nooraddeen with terrorism. Both however, had denied the charges. Prosecutors had presented a total 29 people as witnesses while the defence has named five.
During the hearing on Monday, one of Rilwan's neighbours testified in secret said he had a scream around 2am on the night Rilwan went missing.
But he admitted that he had not bothered to even take a look thinking that it was an assault or a scuffle .
Several other neighbours had testified earlier, some of whom had said they had seen someone being forced into a car.
Investigators believe that Rilwan had been forced into a red car owned by Aalif where the victim's DNA had also been found.
Both Aalif Rauf and Nooraddeen have been previously apprehended on suspicions of links to the case. However they were released back then, when summoned to court for remand extension.
