The High Court in Shah Alam ruled today that the Immigration Department violated the Federal Constitution and its own procedures in the Simon Momoh case.<br /><br />This was because the department continued to detain the Nigerian national despite neither bringing him before a magistrate within 14 days after his arrest nor securing a remand for him.<br /><br />This afternoon, judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman allowed the habeas corpus application of Momoh’s family and ordered the 33-year-old to be released from detention at a “practical” time.<br /><br />During the hearing, deputy public prosecutors Siti Ruvinna Mohd Rawi and Ainaa Lutfiah Mohamed Zulkali admitted that the Immigration Department never secured any remand for Momoh.
