Supreme Court rejects Haveeru ownership case

The Supreme Court has decided not to accept the appeal of the High Court a decision regarding the Haveeru News Agency submitted by Dr. Mohamed Zahir Hussain.

The letter of the decision on the appeal signed by the Registrar of the Court and sent to Dr. Zahir Hussain with Monday's date says that while the High Court has made a decision on an appeal, the Supreme Court finds no basis on which to question the ruling of the High Court. And said that the High Court ruling was within the law and there is no legal basis for overruling it.

Last August, the High Court ruled that the Haveeru News Agency does not have 100 percent ownership of it's Chairman, Dr. Zahir Hussain and has the share of Abdulla Farooq Hassan and Ibrahim Rasheed. The court deemed Mohamed Naeem as the fourth shareholder of Haveeru.

The court said that from the moment an agreement was made among the founding members to run the News Agency, it is valid up to this point.

Although the Haveeru News Agency has been dissolved and all it's branches renamed, High Court said that Ibrahim Farooq Rasheed retains his share.

Dr. Zahir Hussain appealed at the Supreme Court on 4 November claiming that the High Court ruling was against the law. The Supreme Court made a decision on the appeal six months later.

On 31 March, the Civil Court banned running the Haveeru News Agency without the involvement of Farooq Hassan and Ibrahim Rasheed Moosa. The media out let came to a halt that day and two days later, Haveeru online news went offline.