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February 10, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 1 Comment
A court in Limbe has refused to move a case of a police officer implicated in raping a 17-year-old girl at a police station, to Blahtyre magistrates court.
The Limbe Magistrate Court has dismissed the application by the State to move a case against Andrew Chigaga, the police officer alleged to have defiled the girl saying the state did not give convincing reasons.
On January 27, 2020, the state asked the court to move the case to the Blantyre Magistrate Court where the suspect can get a stiffer punishment when convicted.
However, Magistrate Tsoka Banda, who is hearing the case, dismissed the application saying the State did not give valid reasons to convince the court to move the case to another court.
January 28, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 6 Comments
The State prosecutors have asked the Limbe magistrates court to transfer to a higher court a case in which a police officer is accused of defiling a 17-year-old girl in police cell.
Chikondi Chijozi, CHREAA deputy executive director hired to represent DPP as its lawyer
The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) asked the court to transfer the case against the police officer, Andrew Chagaga to Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Court.
The court was on Wednesday expected to start hearing the case.
However, Chikondi Chijozi, one of the lawyers representing the office of the DPP, asked the court to transfer the case to Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate where the suspect can be given a stiffer sentence when convicted.