Expected decisions on bail applications by Seremban Jaya assemblyperson P Gunasekaran and DAP member V Suresh Kumar has been moved from today to two dates later this month.
Both men were detained under a security law over the probe into the now-defunct terror group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Justice Muhammad Jamil Hussin set Feb 12 as the new date to deliver his decision on Gunasekaran's (above) application.
"The purpose (of the new date) is to put in further written submissions on Feb 10.
"The new date for this decision is on Feb 12," Gunasekaran's counsel Ramkarpal Singh told reporters this morning.
Similarly, it is understood that the decision for bail application by Suresh before High Court judge Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah has been postponed to Feb 20.
Ramkarpal, who also appeared for Suresh, had previously submitted that he was not a flight risk as he had to take care of his ailing son and cancer-stricken mother as well as being the sole breadwinner for his family.
Ramkarpal (below) previously said the accused also has a job responsibility as a Malacca local authority councillor and a member of the Durian Tunggal DAP branch.
Gunasekaran and Suresh have been under Sosma detention since last October.
On Jan 29, the Kuala Lumpur High Court denied the application for bail by another accused in the LTTE case, Gadek assemblyperson G Saminathan.
In doing so, judge Ahmad Shahrir Mohd Salleh became the first judge to dismiss an LTTE-accused's bail application on its merits.
This after the November ruling by another High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali that Section 13 of the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) is unconstitutional as it usurps the court's power to grant bail in security offence cases, among others.
Section 13 of the Act had prohibited courts from granting bail in security offences cases and terrorism cases.
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