The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al will be re­quired to de­fend yet an­oth­er case brought by re­put­ed gang leader Ra­jaee Ali over be­ing trans­ferred to mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ties in Ch­aguara­mas and be­ing de­nied ac­cess to his le­gal team.

Ali’s lawyer, Keron Ramkhal­whan, of Ju­ris X Cham­bers, ini­ti­at­ed fresh le­gal pro­ceed­ings on his be­half on Fri­day.

The move came al­most a week af­ter Ali, who is await­ing tri­al for the mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal, filed a habeas cor­pus law­suit over his trans­fer from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca to the T&T Reg­i­ment’s Teteron Bar­racks in Ch­aguara­mas as a State of Emer­gency (SoE) was pro­claimed by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo based on the ad­vice of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.