KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — The High Court today dismissed applications filed by five men, two of them state assemblymen, to be released immediately from detention over their alleged links to the LTTE group. Judicial commissioner Datuk Ahmad Shahrir Mohd Salleh said the habeas corpus applications...
Suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam sympathiser V. Suresh Kumar is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur High Court October 31, 2019. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
“Their detention expired once they were charged in court. As such, their applications are dismissed,” he said. Earlier, Senior Federal Counsel Muhammad Sinti, representing all the respondents, objected to the habeas corpus applications on the grounds that they have become academic after the applicants were charged in court.
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