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Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice squeaky clean
YANBU: The Court of Cassation in Riyadh yesterday upheld the verdict of a lower court in Madinah in the case against two members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in connection with the death of three Saudis in a road accident in March last year.The Madinah court acquitted the two suspects who were accused of abuse of official powers, which allegedly led to the deaths of two men and a woman who the commission members were allegedly pursuing because they were suspected to have committed illegal gender mixing. The three died when their car collided with a concrete water storage tank on a rural road in their attempt to escape the commission members. The lower court examined the case files including the findings of the Investigation and Prosecution Board, reports of the Civil Defense and traffic police and the report of the company that owned the car that was involved in the accident. The company certified that the car was in good condition and devoid of any mechanical malfunctioning at the time of the accident. However, the witness statements in the case were contradictory. While some of the witnesses said they saw the commissions car chasing the car that met with the accident, others said they did not see any patrol car in pursuit. Eventually the two suspects were released and the case was referred to the Administrative Court, which also came to the conclusion that the two did not commit the crimes. The decision was appealed but the Court of Cassation upheld the verdict. Posted by: classer 2009-05-27 |
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