Case requesting to halt Border Control project filed again to High Court

Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has filed the case pertaining to Immigration Department’s Border Control System (BCS) project, following Supreme Court’s annulment of all hearings on the case.

The case had been appealed to High Court following Civil Court’s ruling that ACC does not have the authority to halt the project. Supreme Court based its decision to annul the hearings on the fact that the High Court bench presiding over the case was illegitimate.

ACC member Abdullah Hilmy said today that the BSC case had been appealed to High Court again, and that a request had been made to halt the project.

“The mandamus order has annulled High Court’s decisions on the case. So we have once again requested for an order to temporarily halt the BCS project,” Hilmy said.

Supreme Court’s mandamus order indicates that the bench constituted by the Chief Judge on 12 April to preside over the BCS case which was appealed following Civil Court’s ruling that ACC cannot halt the project, was reformed on 3 May, removing Chief Judge Ahmed Shareef.

Supreme Court annulled the hearings conducted after the reconstitution of the bench, based on the fact that this was done in violation of the law on courts.