Al­leged gang leader Ra­jaee Ali has evad­ed a pre­lim­i­nary chal­lenge to his law­suit over be­ing trans­ferred from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca to mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ties in Ch­aguara­mas un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

When Ali’s case came up for hear­ing on Wednes­day, lawyers for the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al re­quest­ed that Jus­tice Maris­sa Robert­son con­sid­er whether he should be grant­ed leave to pur­sue the case be­fore analysing the sub­stan­tive is­sues raised by his le­gal team, led by Keron Ramkhal­whan, of Ju­ris X Cham­bers.

They claimed that Ali had not raised a valid case with a re­al­is­tic prospect of suc­cess at an even­tu­al tri­al, as he was cur­rent­ly be­ing de­tained un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for the SoE and not a re­mand war­rant un­der which he was first trans­ferred.