The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has decided to ask the parliament to dismiss Criminal Court Judge Hussain Faiz Rashad.

JSC investigated Faiz after he issued an order to release suspected drug lord, 41-year-old Ali Anwar Mohamed, from police custody.

He also ordered the release of nurse Haleemath Lamha, accused of killing her Filipino co-worker, Mary Grace, on two occasions.

Faiz was suspended on October 22 as the JSC investigated the complaints against him.

He was previously suspended in November 2021 after an audio leaked of him saying that former President Abdulla Yameen was convicted by "kidnapping" the judges.

He was a member of the three-judge bench in Yameen's trial. He was suspended for 60 days, but the JSC lifted the suspension a month later.