Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve will re­main de­tained while they pur­sue a case chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate key gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

De­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sion yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad re­ject­ed the cou­ple’s ap­pli­ca­tion to be re­leased pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of a ju­di­cial re­view law­suit over Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against them days af­ter their ar­rest, last week.

He al­so dis­missed their habeas cor­pus writs seek­ing to have the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) jus­ti­fy their con­tin­ued de­ten­tion.