Friday, January 30, 2015

Former Perak MB charged again with defaming Najib

 Former Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin was charged again with defaming Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 30, 2015.  Former Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin was charged again with defaming Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 30, 2015. 
Former Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin was charged again in the Sessions Court today with defaming Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak almost three years ago.
The Perak opposition leader and state assemblyman for Changkat Jering pleaded not guilty to the charge read out before Judge Norhayati Mat. 
Nizar, 59, of Sungai Rokam, was charged with defaming Najib in a speech delivered in Taman Desa Pakatan in Ipoh between 9 pm and midnight on April 23, 2012.
Nizar was charged under Section 500 of the Penal Code which provides for a maximum jail term of two years or a fine, or both, upon conviction.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Yusaini Amer Abdul Karim recommended that bail be set at RM5,000 in one surety, but Nizar's counsel Hatem Musa applied to have the sum reduced.
Norhayati decided on a bail of RM2,000 in one surety and set March 26 for mention of the case.
On January 13, the Sessions Court granted Mohammad Nizar a discharge not amounting to an acquittal on a charge of defaming Najib after allowing a preliminary objection by the defence led by Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden over the complainant in the case.
Judge Rihaida Rafie ruled that the complaint was defective and unacceptable because of the confusion over who actually made the complaint.
- TMI

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