A MAN serving a life term for killing another during a robbery in 2006 has had his application for constitutional redress dismissed by the Fiji Curt of Appeal.
Solomoni Qurai is serving his term at the Naboro Medium Corrections Centre for the murder of Mohammed Azim Khan.
The relief being sought by Qurai is an interpretation of section 199 (a) (b) (c) of the Constitution and section 27 (3) and (4) of the Fiji Corrections Service (Amendment) Act.
Qurai contends he has served 18 years in prison and yet his application for pardon was declined by the Mercy Commission, however, he did not support his claims with evidence.
“Even if I was to accept that the Mercy Commission has rejected the petitioner’s application for pardon, I would not have allowed him to invoke the constitutional redress procedure to review or second-guess the commission’s decision,” stated Justice Daniel Goundar at the High Court in Suva on June 9.
Justice Goundar summarily dismissed the application as being frivolous and vexatious.
“An application for constitutional redress made in person by the petitioner in the future is not to be accepted without the sanction of a judge of the high court,” he concluded.
