Criminal Court yesterday rejected the request by the Police for a court order to dismantle the Usfasgandu area. The court’s decision detailed that after assessing the relevant documentation presented by the Police, it cannot be clearly determined that the issue or case was within the mandate of the Criminal Court.
Henceforth, the Criminal Court decided that it cannot issue an order to dismantle the Usfasgandu area.
According to the State Home Minister Mohamed Fayaz, the Ministry had ordered the police to follow through with assuming control over the Usfasgandu area from the Male City Council and to hand over the place to Housing Ministry based on the legal opinion of the Attorney General after the City Council had failed to vacate the area.
Haveeru has learned that the Attorney General was of the opinion that the Police need not involve the court to execute its legal mandate.
Home Ministry believed that Usfasgandu area should be vacated without delay as stated in the regulations and should be opened as a leisure area for the public.
However the City Council had stressed that Usfasgandu area has been leased to opposition Maldivian Democratic Party under the same procedure in which other political parties get to hold their activities on a temporary basis.
The council stated that the permit was given upon considering the current situation and to keep people from protesting on the streets of Male. The council stated that this would keep the people from protesting on the roads and would also facilitate a proper platform to carry out political activities.
While the government had intensified efforts to take apart Usfasgandu, MDP interim Chairperson Moosa ‘Reeko’ Manik had stressed that if the government dismantled Usfasgandu, MDP would make the Maldives Monetary Authorty (MMA) area as its new hub.
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