Perak farmers get interim injunction to stop state agency entering land
The High Court also fixed June 21 for the next case management on the injunction. (Reuters pic)
PETALING JAYA: A group of vegetable farmers in Chemor have obtained a temporary injunction against the Perak state economic agency from trespassing on the land they were farming on, pending the disposal of their civil action against the state authorities.
Ipoh High Court judicial commissioner Su Tiang Joo granted the interim injunction on Wednesday.
The court also fixed June 21 for the next case management on the injunction.
Lawyer Rabinder Singh, who appeared for the farmers, said that the injunction was to maintain the status quo so that they could enter the land and continue their work.
“The court order has been served on Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Perak (PKNP) and they have been notified to comply with it,” he added.
The farmers, in their suit filed last month, said they had been farming on parts of the land since the 1940s.
They said the state government and PKNP had acknowledged their interest in the land and made presentations to them, saying the state government would move them to other plots of land suitable for farming.
They also claimed the state government promised to grant them a 30-year lease at a nominal rent.
“However, in December last year, PKNP asked the farmers to leave as they wanted to take possession of the land.
“A suit was filed against the farmers for this purpose. PKNP tried to get a summary judgment to evict them from the land before withdrawing the suit,” Rabinder said.
The lawyer said the farmers commenced their civil action suit after they were still prevented from entering the land.
Last April, the police arrested one of the farmers, Tan Tean Chee, for allegedly obstructing a policeman from carrying out his duty. He was later released.
Tan, the head of Persatuan Petani Moden Chemor, had led other farmers in trying to stop PKNP’s soil testers from entering their farm.
Lawyers for PKNP had reportedly asked the court for permission to enter the land for soil testing, but a judge had denied the request.
PETALING JAYA: A group of vegetable farmers in Chemor have obtained a temporary injunction against the Perak state economic agency from trespassing on the land they were farming on, pending the disposal of their civil action against the state authorities.
Ipoh High Court judicial commissioner Su Tiang Joo granted the interim injunction on Wednesday.
The court also fixed June 21 for the next case management on the injunction.
Lawyer Rabinder Singh, who appeared for the farmers, said that the injunction was to maintain the status quo so that they could enter the land and continue their work.
“The court order has been served on Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Perak (PKNP) and they have been notified to comply with it,” he added.
The farmers, in their suit filed last month, said they had been farming on parts of the land since the 1940s.
They said the state government and PKNP had acknowledged their interest in the land and made presentations to them, saying the state government would move them to other plots of land suitable for farming.
They also claimed the state government promised to grant them a 30-year lease at a nominal rent.
“However, in December last year, PKNP asked the farmers to leave as they wanted to take possession of the land.
“A suit was filed against the farmers for this purpose. PKNP tried to get a summary judgment to evict them from the land before withdrawing the suit,” Rabinder said.
The lawyer said the farmers commenced their civil action suit after they were still prevented from entering the land.
Last April, the police arrested one of the farmers, Tan Tean Chee, for allegedly obstructing a policeman from carrying out his duty. He was later released.
Tan, the head of Persatuan Petani Moden Chemor, had led other farmers in trying to stop PKNP’s soil testers from entering their farm.
Lawyers for PKNP had reportedly asked the court for permission to enter the land for soil testing, but a judge had denied the request.
Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad said this could be among the initiatives taken to reduce the burden of rising cost of living due to the spike in the price of agriculture products and livestock meat such as chicken and mutton while the surplus could be sold. — Picture by Farhan Najib
GOPENG, May 31 — The Perak government is urging the people in the state to grow vegetables and rear livestock for their own consumption due to the current shortage of food supply.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad said this could be among the initiatives taken to reduce the burden of rising cost of living due to the spike in the price of agriculture products and livestock meat such as chicken and mutton while the surplus could be sold.
“That’s why I have been campaigning at various places in the state on this so that what we want to eat, we plant or breed the produce ourselves so as not to rely so much on imports.”
He said this to reporters after attending the Agrofest programme of the Perak State Agriculture Development Corporation (SADC) with its chief executive officer Yahanis Yahya also present at The Treasure @ Taman Herba Gopeng today.
GOPENG, May 31 — The Perak government is urging the people in the state to grow vegetables and rear livestock for their own consumption due to the current shortage of food supply.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad said this could be among the initiatives taken to reduce the burden of rising cost of living due to the spike in the price of agriculture products and livestock meat such as chicken and mutton while the surplus could be sold.
“That’s why I have been campaigning at various places in the state on this so that what we want to eat, we plant or breed the produce ourselves so as not to rely so much on imports.”
He said this to reporters after attending the Agrofest programme of the Perak State Agriculture Development Corporation (SADC) with its chief executive officer Yahanis Yahya also present at The Treasure @ Taman Herba Gopeng today.
Yes, grow your own food unless the land is wanted by the powers that be...
ReplyDeleteSuch hypocrisy is so common place in Malaysia that it is now the new normal.