Court turns away Nazim appeal, inconsistent signature

Supreme Court has rejected former Defense Minister Colonel (Retired) Mohamed Nazim’s petition for appeal due to inconsistencies in his signature.

Nazim’s brother – Adam Azim spoke to “Sun” on Saturday and said that Nazim’s signature in the appeal form had been inconsistent with the signature in his National Identity Card.

He said that they would re-file the case for appeal on Sunday after re-signing the form.

Azim said that they now knew without a trace of doubt that the pistol found in Nazim’s apartment on January 17, 2015 had been planted there by police. And that they had filed the case for appeal with evidence to prove that.

“We will prove it, if Supreme Court gives us the opportunity – that the pistol was smuggled in by police, and that it’s not Nazim’s,” said Azim, who was kicked out of his post as managing director of State Trading Organization soon after Nazim’s fall from grace.

Nazim’s defense attorney, Husnu Suood, who spoke to press after filing the case with Supreme Court last Thursday, said that the defense knew the identity of the officer who planted the pistol.

And that they had requested an opportunity to question him in court.

Nazim was sentenced to 11 years in prison by Criminal Court on March 26, 2015 after police officers testified to confiscating weapons from his apartment, and after he failed to prove that the weapons were not his.