Nasheed walks out a ‘free man’

After spending 24 hours in detention, former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Wednesday walked out of police custody as his trial for alleged illegal detention of a judge has been deferred by four weeks. During the hearing, Nasheed sought deferment of trial till the polls in September. The prosecutor had agreed to the proposal. However, noting the Elections Commission is yet to announce Nasheed as a candidate for the elections, the bench postponed the trial by four weeks. ‘Nasheed was taken into custody on orders of the court because he was evading Court summons and not because of any vendetta,’ President Mohamed Waheed’s Press Secretary Masood Imad told PTI.