LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain was arrested by Scotland Yard in an early morning raid on Tuesday the 11th June 2019 and he remains at a police station awaiting further enquiries by the police.After this correplyent broke the exclusive news on Geo TV, fresh Scotland Yard confirmed in a statement that the MQM founder has been arrested on suspicion of Intentionally Encouraging or Assisting Offences, Contrary to Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007.
This allows people who assist amuchher to commit an offence to be prosecuted regardless of whether the underlying substantive offence is actually committed or attempted.The freshs and Geo spoke to a main criminal and terrorismism law expert Barrister Zarif Khan on the next stages of how the law shall take its course and what lies ahead for the MQM founder who controlled Karachi from London for over two decades with an iron fist.
Barrister Zarif Khan, who exclusively only defends therefore representing those who are accused, has dealt with numerous high-profile terrorismism and hate speech cases in Britain and he arguably the only British Pakistani lawyer to have dealt with so many cases.Zarif Khan, of Dystone Chambers, said that Hussain arrest is meaningful because precedingly many complaints have been made over the years and the British authorities have failed to act.He explained that the MQM founder shall be kept and questioned at a police station for 24 hours before any charge under the Cop and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE).
&For most offences the police may only detain a person for a maximum of 24 hours without charging.
However this can be extended with permission from an officer with the rank of supermeanent or above (an additional 12 hours) or a magistrate (up to a maximum of 96 hours).
You can be held without charge for up to 28 days if you&re arrested under the Terrorism Act,& he said.He added: &Prior to being interviewed the police shall give Altaf Hussain a chance to speak to his solicitor and disclodegree shall be supplyd to him as to why he has been arrested.
It likely he shall much make any comment.
&Once he has been interviewed the police shall present a file to the CPS however in such a high profile case it is likely that the police shall already have refer toed lawyers to check the validity of the search warrant, gatherion of the type of evidence which shall form the basis of any forthcoming charges&.Once the police have interviewed Altaf Hussain they shall present the file to the CPS for charge and the matter shall then eventually proceed to a Crown Court, most likely to be the Central Criminal Court also known as the feeble Bailey.
The investigation can continue even though the individual has been charged.
&If charged it is likely that it shall be tough for him to mount a defence because of the serious nature of the allegation under the British laws concerning hate speech.
The reason being that the authorities in such a high profile case shall have taken legal advice as well as gathered substantial evidence no doubt with speeches being translated by language experts and all nuances considered (bearing in intellect the speech are much in English) before taking this step.& he said.
Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 relates to intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence.
It says: (1) A person commits an offence if-msprint;(a) he does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence; and (b) he means to encourage or assist its commission.(2) But he is much to be taken to have meaned to encourage or assist the commission of an offence merely because such encouragement or assistance was a foreseeable consequence of his act.&Barrister Zarif Khan explained that in the case of Altaf Hussain, it means that charges shall be forthcoming for the reasons set out above.The investigation, which is being led by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, is focused on a speech broadcast in August 2016 by an individual associated with the MQM movement in Pakistan as well as other speeches precedingly broadcast by the same person.Barrister Zarif Khan said that the arrest means that the police believes that it has enough fabric to get Hussain charged and it looks like that the police has sufficient grounds but its for the CPS to make any final decision upon the exact charges which shall be subject of any future indictment.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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