In a last-minute attempt to delay the reading of the Supreme Court’s verdict, scheduled on Monday, former director-general of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Tarit Pengdit, submitted a petition Friday, through the Supreme Court to the Constitutional Court, seeking a ruling on the constitutionality of Sections 157 and 200 of the Criminal Code.

 

Citing Section 212 of the Constitution, Tarit claimed that the court must forward his petition to the Charter Court for consideration, as he warned that, if the Supreme Court upholds the Appeals Court’s guilty verdict, it will effectively “whitewash” the 2010 bloody crackdown against red-shirt protesters, ordered by former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban.

 

Tarit spoke at length about the case against Abhisit and Suthep at a meeting today with relatives of 99 red-shirt protesters killed and relatives of about 2,000 protesters injured during the crackdown.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ex-dsi-chief-tarit-resorts-to-charter-court-to-delay-reading-of-verdict/

 

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