DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTION ZANZIBAR(App)
Vs
ZALHA ABDULRAHMAN TAKADIR(Res)
The Director of Public Prosecutions, through the services of Mr.
Salum Toufiq Alii, learned advocate, is challenging the decision of the High
Court of Zanzibar in Criminal Appeal No. 21 of 2009. In the said Appeal,
Makungu, J. quashed the conviction and set aside the three year
imprisonment sentence imposed on the respondent, the accused in
Criminal Case No. 139 of 2007 in the Mwera Regional Court, Zanzibar. In
the trial court the respondent was charged with the offence of false
accounting cis 322 (a) of the Penal Act, No. 6 of 2004 of the Laws of
Zanzibar which states verbatim.