QURGHON TEPPA, June 23, 2011, Asia-Plus — The Khatlon regional court has annulled the Bokhtar district court’s verdict against ex-candidate to parliament from Vakhsh district, Sayvali Nourov and the case has been remitted for repeated trial to the Qurghon Teppa city court.
Alisho Qurbonov, chairman of the criminal board of the Khatlon regional court, says the case has been remitted for repeated trial to the Qurghon Teppa court because requirements of the criminal procedure code were not observed fully and the Bokhtar district court allegedly did not study enough facts of the case.
Temour Boyev, chairman of the Qurghon Teppa city court, has confirmed that they received Nourov’s case for repeated trial and it will be considered within the next few days. “The Supreme Court, however, requested the case for studying the reason for annulment of the Bokhtar court’s verdict,” Boyev said.
We will recall that the case Sayvali Nourov was remitted to the court of Bokhtar district for second trial on July 23, 2010. The Khatlon regional court chairperson Muhabbat Azizova told Asia-Plus on July 23 that the Qurghon Teppa city court that initially considered the case closed it. However, the Khatlon prosecutor’s office appealed against the decision of the Qurghon Teppa city court and the case was remitted for second trial to the Bokhtar district court, Azizova said.
As it had been reported earlier, the Khatlon prosecutor’s office completed an investigation into the case of Nourov in mid-March and the case moved for consideration to the Qurghon Teppa city court.
Nourov faced charges of hooliganism (Article 237, Part 2 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code), preventing exercise of rights and activities of electoral commissions (Article 150, Part 2) and inflicting slight bodily injuries (Article 112) after assaulting an election official on election day, February 28, 2010.
We will recall that Tolib Khoujanazarov, the head of the electoral commission for polling station # 20 in the Vakhsh district, told Asia-Plus on March 1 that Nourov assaulted him on February 28 in front of several people after he let an elderly man cast a ballot on behalf of his sick wife.
Nourov confirmed that he saw the old man voted more than once and reported it as a violation of election rules. But he denied punching Khoujanazarov.
The Bokhtar district court ruled that Nourov should pay a fine in an amount equal to 500 accounting indices (current accounting index is set at 35.00 somoni). The sentence followed his conviction on charge of hooliganism.
