Kuala Lumpur: A former Malaysian Bar president wants the incoming Bar Council members to file a legal challenge against the Pardons Board over its decision to halve Najib Razak’s jail sentence for his SRC International corruption conviction.
Zainur Zakaria, who was president from 1993 to 1995, claimed that the Federal Territories Pardons Board “acted ultra vires under Article 42 of the Federal Constitution” in slashing the former prime minister’s 12-year jail sentence to six years as well as reducing the RM210 million fine to RM50 million.
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“The suggested amendment seeks to place foundlings under the discretionary authority of the home minister for citizenship determination, unjustly imposing the onus of proving parentage on the child,” Abhilaash added.Last week, former deputy law and institutional reform minister Ramkarpal Singh said the proposed amendment would deny foundlings automatic citizenship if passed, and force them into a lengthy and uncertain bureaucratic registration process.
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