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A man was sentenced to six months in prison for falsely reporting a colleague, accusing him of stealing a car in January last year.
Prosecutors charged him with falsely notifying his company’s management of a crime, by filing a complaint alleging the theft of a car that he knew had not occurred.
The Lower Criminal Court found the Bahraini guilty of the charge, sentencing him to six months in prison, fining him BD50, and setting a BD500 bail.
He took the case to the High Criminal Appeals Court, but the sentence was upheld because he was not present at the hearings.
In June, he lodged an objection to the ruling, but judges rejected it.
He went on to take the matter to Bahrain’s highest court, the Cassation Court, but on December 15 was granted a Royal Pardon by His Majesty King Hamad on the occasion of National Day.
The pardon relieved him from his remaining jail time. Hence, the Cassation Court stated that the appeal against the sentence was now void, and decided to treat the appeal as if it had never been filed.
“If the pardon is issued before a verdict is made in the case by the Cassation Court, it removes the matter from the hands of the judiciary, and renders the court unable to continue the proceedings of the appeal,” read the ruling.
As part of the special pardon, 963 inmates were released, including convicts in various cases who have served part of their sentences, as well as several individuals subject to alternative sentencing.
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