On 26 May, he was arrested by the Northern Ireland security forces under the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provision ) Act 1974 and interned at the Maze Prison on an Interim Custody Order partly on suspicion of having participated in the car bombings.
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In the first hearing before the High Court, Shamala Sathiyaseelan sought ( 1 ) to bring committal proceedings against the father of the infants for breach of the interim custody order of the High Court of 17 April 2003, and ( 2 ) to declare that she was not bound by any decisions, order or proceedings of the syariah court.