A woman was found dead with injuries inside a house in the city. The arms and legs of the deceased were amputated, and her neck was severely stabbed. A man was arrested in connection with the incident. The police are yet to share further information regarding the incident.
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Maldives: A rule on post-mortems has been enacted to give police the power to conduct post-mortems to determine the cause of death.
Maldivian High Court has upheld the ten-year prison sentence by the Hithadhoo Magistrate Court against Child molester, Hassan Ameen, (S. Hithadhoo, Huraa) who was convicted for carrying out a sexual act with a 14-year-old girl on 8 August 2015 while staying at the same house as the victim.
The first amendment to the Sexual Offences Act (Law No. 17/2014) was ratified by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Monday (December 6, 2021), upon which it has been publicized in the government gazette.
Maldives Police Service has begun following the ‘Strategic Policing Requirement, a unique guideline formulated under the newly enacted Police Service Act that stipulates how the institute and its matters are structured and organized.
The court issued the ruling in response to a case involving a woman who confessed to bearing a child out of wedlock, and named the man who fathered the child. The State charged the man in question with engaging in extramarital sex, following a DNA match between the man and the child. The State based the charge on testimony from the woman and the DNA analysis report. However, the man denied the charge, and the magistrate court which heard the case acquitted him. The State appealed the decision with the High Court, citing violation of judicial and legal standards. However, the court ruled in…
