The 13th Judicial Circuit at the Administrative Court in Jeddah Monday ordered the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (BIP) to reinvestigate the Umm Al-Khair planned district project case involving a former deputy mayor and several others. The papers of the case were sent back to BIP. Commenting on the court decision, Dr. Wael Bafaqih, lawyer of the former deputy mayor, said: “We requested the prosecutor to prove his allegations. He was given grace periods several times, but he did not reply. In this session, the judge asked the representative of the prosecution whether he had anything to add. But he decided that what was presented earlier was sufficient. The judge saw that the case was incomplete and ordered a reinvestigation. We will appeal against it because we are demanding a final verdict.” The deputy mayor always demanded that the court should summon a former Jeddah mayor who had admitted before the BIP in his attested confessions that his deputy was the one who misguided him on the Umm Al-Khair planned district project. However, the deputy mayor had replied in previous sessions that it was the mayor who approved the planned district because he was the decision-maker. __
