A taxi driver has appealed to the Court of Appeal in his legal bid to delist the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist group from the Home Ministry's list of banned organisations.
V Balamurugan (above) filed the appeal last month, targeting an earlier Kuala Lumpur High Court decision to dismiss his judicial review application.
His counsel Muhammad Farhan Ahmad Fadzil today confirmed the filing of the appeal on Oct 9.
“The notice of appeal was filed on Oct 9,” the lawyer told Malaysiakini.
Farhan added that the matter has been fixed for an e-review (online) case management before the Court of Appeal on Dec 2 at 9 am.
On Sept 17, Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mariana Yahya dismissed the judicial review application which listed the home minister and the government as respondents.
The judge reportedly ruled that there had been a delay in the filing of the judicial review application because any such filing should have been made within three months of the government gazetting (the LTTE as a terrorist group) in 2014.
Balamurugan, 38, on Jan 8 this year, had filed the leave application to initiate a judicial review to declare that the LTTE details in the gazette were null and void and that the listing of LTTE as a terrorist group was unlawful, among others.
Balamurugan was among 12 individuals who were detained and charged late last year over alleged support of the LTTE among others,
On Feb 21, then attorney-general Tommy Thomas discontinued the terrorism charges against the 12 individuals.
It was reported on Feb 24 that after being discharged and acquitted of the LTTE-linked charges, Balamurugan chose to continue with his legal challenge to delist the LTTE as a militant group. - Mkini
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