THE State has asked Constitutional Court judge Martin Musaluke to reverse his decision to halt criminal proceedings against former Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu in the Subordinate Court. Attorney General Mulilo Kabesha has submitted that Justice Musaluke departed from the well-settled principle of the law that civil proceedings can not be used to abort criminal proceedings. The Constitutional Court recently halted criminal proceedings before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court involving Lungu, pending the hearing of a petition in which he is challenging his re-arrest after being granted immunity from prosecution. Constitutional Court Judge Martin Musaluke ordered that no party, interested individual or entity is to take action in the criminal proceedings currently before the Magistrates’ Court involving Lungu...