{"id":165883,"date":"2015-11-10T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=165883"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:45:16","slug":"justice-dery-sues-police-cid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/11\/justice-dery-sues-police-cid\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dery sues Police CID"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the implicated judges in the judicial corruption scandal, Justice Pual Dery has sued the Police for attempting to investigate him.<\/p>\n
According to the writ by Justice Dery, his lawyers received a telephone call on November 9, 2015 from the office of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inviting him [Dery] to assist the Police probe allegations made by investigative journalist, Anas Aremyaw Anas.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”bUcvS3hvuLB24Hg9T7RrfsKKDuXy21WF”]Justice Dery contends that the invitation by the CID would amount to interfering with the pending suits he had filed challenging the allegations at several courts including the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
He argued that the action by the CID is also \u201cunconstitutional and unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Plaintiff avers that pursuant to Article 127(3) of the 1992 Constitution, a Justice of the Superior Court, shall not be liable to any action or suit for any act or omission by him in the exercise of the judicial power,\u201d the writ added.<\/p>\n
Added to the suit is Anas [1st<\/sup> Defandant] and the Attorney General [3RD<\/sup> Defendant].<\/p>\n Justice Dery who was suspended for allegedly taking bribe while hearing a case titled The Republic v. Kwame Dzato is seeking the following reliefs from the court:<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n\n
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