In a setback to ousted Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, the supreme court has declared as unlawful his act of dismissing eight members of the interim parliament of 2008 and the nomination of his loyalists in their place.
Maldives Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of the run-off presidential re-vote scheduled for Sunday, a day after former president Mohammed Nasheed led the first round but failed to clinch an outright majority.
Nasheed, whose Maldivian Democratic Party functions from Colombo, appealed for India's help.
In a significant decision, which may escalate the political turmoil in Maldives, the country's supreme court on Tuesday declared as null and void the first round of presidential polls in which former president Mohammed Nasheed emerged as the winner.
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