PETALING JAYA: The devotees opposed to the relocation of the Seafield Maha Mariamman Temple in Subang Jaya are withdrawing their lawsuit against the developer, the Selangor government and temple chairman, and will instead challenge a 2014 consent judgment requiring the temple to move out after getting compensation.
K Satisvaran and S Sithataran, representing 120 people in their class action suit, said that they had decided to discontinue their case.
Instead, they will now act as witnesses in another lawsuit filed by temple task force committee members against developer One City, the Selangor government, and the temple administrator.
“We all are in full support of their case which is pending before the Shah Alam High Court.
“We will provide evidence narrating the chronology of truth about the temple land and alleged fraud conspiracy,” they said.
The duo also said they had reached an agreement with the task force members to raise relevant issues when the court takes up their case.
When contacted, Satisvaran said that the court would hear the taskforce case next Tuesday.
Ten taskforce members, who are also devotees of Sri Maha Mariamman, filed a suit in November to set aside a 2014 consent judgement entered by temple administrators and One City.
They had claimed that administrator K Chellappa and One City Development committed fraud in obtaining the consent judgment and all related agreements.
Under the consent judgment in 2014, One City agreed to donate RM1.5 million for the construction of a new temple on one of the two plots of land given by the company.
After the temple gave up the rights to one of these two plots of land, One City gave it another RM1 million in compensation.
In November last year, violence erupted after several men entered the temple, setting off angry protests the following day, where vehicles were set on fire and One City’s office vandalised. -FMT
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