Symbol of Justice.

A man in Aweil, Northern Bar-el Ghazal State, has accused a high court judge of judicial corruption after he allegedly altered a ruling.

In the ruling obtained by Eye Radio on 25 of January, Judge Abraham Majur sentenced five men to 3 months in prison for robbery with violence.

The convicts are John Piol Bol Mawien, Ugan Garang Goi, Muhammad Tong Mawien, Anei Anei Ngong, and Majok Adol.

The court found the convicts guilty of robbing and torturing businessman Deng William Ajal Deng in 2020.

The judge ordered them to pay general damages to the complainant worth eight million, three hundred and thirty-three thousand pounds.

The court also ruled that the convicts pay fifty thousand pounds each as a fine to the court.

However, the complainant Deng Ajal says judge Majur immediately altered the ruling made on 25 January without giving reasons.

“Minutes after the verdict was passed, the presiding judge recalled the decree from us and altered the judgment,” Ajal Eye Radio on Monday.

“Some people might have been bribed from within the court. That is why they are doing this. I am calling for intervention from the State government.”

Reacting to the accusation, Judge Abraham Majur says he did not alter any ruling he made.

He says the court is mandated to correct an error that may have occurred during the pronouncement of the judgment.

“It is the mandate of the court to adjust; for example during the pronouncement of the judgment, if you show number 3 or 2 and that is supposed to be 8 and 7 and the record is 8 and 7, that one can be brought to the attention of the court in accordance with section 255 and the court will correct that critical error,” Judge Majur said.

“In this particular case there was no kind and that is why the record is there to speak for themselves, the record of two lawyers is there and the record of the court is there.”

“The court is open and they have the power and they have the chance to appeal to the Supreme Court or the court of appeal. If at all I altered the judgment the copy of decree will not be the same but I did not alter the judgment.”