Insulting non-Muslim faiths: Dec 9 date to challenge AG’s failure to act
Police have classified their investigations into Muhammad Zamri Vinoth Kalimuthu and Firdaus Wong Wai Hung as ‘no further action’.
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed Dec 9 to hear a leave application for judicial review to challenge the attorney-general’s discretion in not prosecuting two Muslim converts for allegedly insulting non-Islamic faiths.
Lawyer T Gunaseelan said Judge Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid scheduled the date during a recent case management.
He said the AG was opposing his clients’ application to get the leave in order for the court to hear the merits of the complaint.
“We will also file an affidavit in reply to the AG who has included the notes of proceedings from a Shah Alam magistrates’ court in this judicial review matter,” he said.
Magistrate Mohamad Redza Azhar Rezali had, on Sept 3, dismissed an application by Global Human Rights Federation president S Shashi Kumar to begin private prosecution against Firdaus Wong Wai Hung and Muhammad Zamri Vinoth Kalimuthu since the AG had decided against filing charges against them.
Redza said Shashi’s complaint could not be entertained as Firdaus and Zamri had allegedly committed a seizable offence and as such private prosecution under Section 133 of the Criminal Procedure Code was not applicable.
In the judicial review application, S Sivakumar and M Rajasegaran wanted a declaration that the AG’s decision not to charge Firdaus and Zamri, as recorded by the magistrates’ court, was invalid and must be quashed.
They also want an order from the court for the AG to file charges against the duo, who were said to be linked to controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik.
The action was filed after deputy public prosecutor Ainul Amirah told the magistrate that the AG had no plans to prosecute Zamri and Firdaus.
Ainul said the AG was unwilling to prosecute Perlis-based preacher Zamri and Multiracial Reverted Muslims founder and president Firdaus as police had classified their cases as “no further action”.
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed Dec 9 to hear a leave application for judicial review to challenge the attorney-general’s discretion in not prosecuting two Muslim converts for allegedly insulting non-Islamic faiths.
Lawyer T Gunaseelan said Judge Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid scheduled the date during a recent case management.
He said the AG was opposing his clients’ application to get the leave in order for the court to hear the merits of the complaint.
“We will also file an affidavit in reply to the AG who has included the notes of proceedings from a Shah Alam magistrates’ court in this judicial review matter,” he said.
Magistrate Mohamad Redza Azhar Rezali had, on Sept 3, dismissed an application by Global Human Rights Federation president S Shashi Kumar to begin private prosecution against Firdaus Wong Wai Hung and Muhammad Zamri Vinoth Kalimuthu since the AG had decided against filing charges against them.
Redza said Shashi’s complaint could not be entertained as Firdaus and Zamri had allegedly committed a seizable offence and as such private prosecution under Section 133 of the Criminal Procedure Code was not applicable.
In the judicial review application, S Sivakumar and M Rajasegaran wanted a declaration that the AG’s decision not to charge Firdaus and Zamri, as recorded by the magistrates’ court, was invalid and must be quashed.
They also want an order from the court for the AG to file charges against the duo, who were said to be linked to controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik.
The action was filed after deputy public prosecutor Ainul Amirah told the magistrate that the AG had no plans to prosecute Zamri and Firdaus.
Ainul said the AG was unwilling to prosecute Perlis-based preacher Zamri and Multiracial Reverted Muslims founder and president Firdaus as police had classified their cases as “no further action”.
Ha ha.. what can we expect? This is islam as practised in Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteA just and peaceful religion! Ptui!!@
AG works for a Race and Religion Supremacist Regime.
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