The High Court’s temporary order had been dismissed after the Supreme Court ruled that the lower Court’s bench presiding of the border control system case had been reconstituted unlawfully. High Court had issued the temporary order in the case, following an appeal of a Civil Court ruling that had declared that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had no legal authority to order the halt of the border control system project. Dr Mohamed Ali detailed that the dates specified in Supreme Court’s ‘Mandumus order’ contradicted the dates in the earlier rulings of the case. “We don’t have a lawyer. I’m not a lawyer either. I can’t make any sense of it. Hence I’m trying to make sense of the Supreme Court’s order,” Controller said. Supreme Court order stated that the civil court order which stated that the ACC cannot order to stop the border control system project was to be appealed with a judges’ bench appointed by the Chief Judge on April 12, 2012. The Judges bench had been revised later on May 3, 2012 and its Chief Judge Ahmed Shareef was dismissed from the bench. It also stated that the procedure was not followed as stated in the judicature act of the Maldives. High Court had issued a temporary stay order on May 10 to the Immigration Department to halt the lucrative MVR500 million Border Control System project assigned to the Malaysian company Nexbis Limited. The order came after the Civil Court had ruled that the ACC had no authority to ask the Immigration Department to halt the project. The High Court order stated that the ongoing Border Control project must be halted until the final verdict is delivered on the case. Controller detailed that the decision whether to move forward with the project or whether to seek the opinion of Attorney General can only be made after the Supreme Court’s ruling is reviewed by legal experts. ACC had appealed for a temporary stay order after citing that the government had acted against the ACC order to put up the project for rebidding after suspecting corruption in the agreement made between Nexbis Limited. The cabinet in October 2010 had decided to move ahead with the implementation of the Border Control System project against the ACC’s order. The Home Ministry had also asked the Immigration Department to halt the project.