The High Court here threw out a RM100 million suit filed by businesswoman Ummi Hafilda Ali against a former business partner and the newsportal Malaysiakini.
Judge Datin Zabariah Mohd Yusof made the decision in her chambers after the counsel representing both the plaintif and defendants were not present in court when the case came up for mention today.
Umi, 43, had filed the suit through the law firm Sahrihan & Hamdan at the Civil High Court registry and named Nor Azman Abdullah @ Baginda Minda as the first defendant and Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, which operates the news portal, as the second defendant.
In her affidvait, she claimed the first defendant in an interview held at Parliament's lobby had uttered words that were defamatory of her, among others that she was a woman of loose morals, and that the second defendant had negligently published an article on the defamatory words used against her on the www.malaysiakini.com portal on March 15.
Besides the RM100 million in damages and other relief deemed fit by the court, she had also sought an injunction to prevent the two defendants from continuing to defame her.
-- BERNAMA
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