Judiciary, attorneys caution against prejudging Dabideen probe

The Ju­di­cia­ry and the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers are urg­ing re­spect for due process and the pre­sump­tion of in­no­cence as Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen re­mains un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion for cor­rup­tion.

Their state­ments fol­lowed Mon­day’s po­lice search of Dabideen’s home in Gulf View, San Fer­nan­do, dur­ing which of­fi­cers seized elec­tron­ic de­vices as part of a wider probe in­volv­ing lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al agen­cies. The case adds to a list of past con­tro­ver­sies in­volv­ing se­nior ju­di­cial of­fi­cers, though each dif­fers in its facts and out­come.

The Ju­di­cia­ry said that while it was aware of re­ports about the ex­e­cu­tion of a search war­rant in re­la­tion to Dabideen, it would make no fur­ther com­ment to pro­tect the fair­ness and in­tegri­ty of any on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion or le­gal pro­ceed­ings.