Police arrest four including PPM council member for attacking ferry captain

Police have arrested four men including a Council Member of the Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM), Maaz Saleem, over the alleged assault of an airport ferry captain.

According to a police account of the incident in local media, Saleem allegedly instructed the group to attack the ferry captain after accusing him of stealing a bag containing an iPad.

“We have received information that Saleem accused the captain of stealing the bag. He then got off the ferry and returned with a group and assaulted the captain,” a police spokesperson told newspaper Haveeru.

Police eventually took Saleem and his three companions into custody, as well as the injured ferry captain.

PPM MP Ahmed Nihan said the reported arrest of Saleem was a personal matter and was not anything to do with the party.

He said that he had been informed of the arrest at about 12:25am by a party supporter that “something went wrong” outside at the jetty near the Nasandhura Palace Hotel involving a computer or tablet device, but had no further details at time of press.

Nihan added that Saleem had not been directly involved with PPM campaigning since the party’s primary election earlier this year, that saw MP Abdulla Yameen elected as its presidential candidate.

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  1. "PPM MP Ahmed Nihan said the reported arrest of Saleem was a personal matter and was not anything to do with the party."

    But if someone in MDP is framed, these guys rant and rave about how "MDP is a crime group".

    Hypocrites.

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  2. This is justice Dhivehistani style - a mini-lynching, like in the old days. No arrest, no trial, no due process - nothing. Just start beating the accused like he's some worthless slave. Sodom and Gomorrah had better criminal justice than this. But in Dhivehistan when the elite can get away with whatever they want, why care about a judiciary or rights of the peasants? Lol.

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