Meru Senator Mithika Linturi.[Photo/Nation]
The High Court has temporarily barred the arrest and prosecution of Meru Senator Mithika Linturi over allegations of having forged academic papers.
Judge Enoch Chacha Mwita on Monday issued the order that had the directive to stop the Director of Public Prosecutions, the anti-graft commission and the Inspector General of Police from summoning, arresting and charging the legislator over the allegations of having forged academic papers.
The judge also went ahead to order that the legislator should not be pronounced unfit to hold public office pending the hearing and the determination of a case he had filed.
Mr Linturi had gone to court to try all ways to stop his prosecution over the allegations of possessing forged academic documents.
The issue began when the University of Nairobi deregistered him and also went ahead to drop his name from last year's graduation ceremony for they stated that he used a forge degree to gain entry into the course.
During a separate suit last year, Justice George Odunga declined to order the university to allow him to graduate and hence this becomes one conflicted issue which has led to thorough investigations to be done and hence the temporal stopping of the arrest.