Mohomed Mansoor Mohamad Asmin vs. Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC APN NO. 116/2010-2015

In the case between Mohomed Mansoor Mohamad Asmin (Accused-Petitioner) and the Hon. Attorney General, Department of the Attorney General (Respondent), the court addressed whether the High Court Judge had erred in disallowing the accused’s defence evidence related to the circumstances of arrest and excluding a subsequent defence witness, and whether the case should be remitted for a further trial including this previously barred evidence. It was held that the exclusion of defence evidence was improper and that the earlier order of the High Court Judge should be set aside. The case was directed to be remitted for further trial before a different judge, with the prosecution’s prior evidence adopted and the defence permitted to lead the previously excluded evidence. This reaffirmed the princip