The Privy Coun­cil has re­served its de­ci­sion on an ap­peal from a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer and two men, who were de­tained over an al­leged plot to kill gov­ern­ment min­is­ters dur­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE) in 2011.

Five Law Lords of the Unit­ed King­dom-based ap­pel­late court said they need­ed time to con­sid­er the case af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions in the ap­peal brought by Ash­meed Mo­hammed, Do­minic Piti­lal and As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Earl Elie, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The out­come of the case is ex­pect­ed to set an im­por­tant le­gal prece­dent for nu­mer­ous chal­lenges brought by de­tainees in sub­se­quent SoEs, in­clud­ing the on­go­ing one, as it is the first to be con­sid­ered by the coun­try’s high­est ap­pel­late court.