Seizure of Moalosi�s laptop lawful � state

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FRANCISTOWN: Attorneys in the case of the seizure of a Botswana Congress Party (BCP) activist’s laptop by the police found themselves yesterday fighting hard to convince the high court to take their opposite corners.

The BCP activist Motlhaleemang Moalosi’s attorney Owen Nsala had approached the court on urgency to order that the seizure of his laptop by detective superintendent Sergeant Marapo of Botswana Police Service and the Attorney General (AG), cited as first and second respondents respectively, is unlawful and without any basis.

State attorney Wada Nfila, argued that the applicant’s application is incomplete and not in compliance with Section 61 of the Police Act since he did not give the police a notice to sue two months before he took the matter to court.

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