The two owners of Crackhouse Comedy Club have withdrawn their legal challenge over an alleged blacklist against the duo registering businesses in Kuala Lumpur.
Lawyer Pravin Mahentharan, acting for Mohamad Rizal Johan Van Geyzel and Shankar R Santhiram, informed the Kuala Lumpur High Court this morning they found out that Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) had merely withdrawn the club's permit rather than impose a blacklist on the duo.
Today was initially set for the hearing of a judicial review over the alleged blacklist that came on the heels of a controversial stand-up routine at the club in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, last year.
Siti Nuramira Abdullah, the woman who performed the controversial stand-up routine at the club on June 4 last year, has since been fined RM8,000 over the incident.
During open-court proceedings before Judge Amarjeet Singh, Pravin explained that they had spoken to DBKL in July and discovered there was never such a blacklist, and that the authorities had merely taken back Crackhouse Comedy Club’s permit.
Khalisa Badrul Amini, a legal representative for DBKL and its mayor, confirmed with Amarjeet what had transpired.
The lawyer explained that further affidavits filed by DBKL revealed that there never was any permanent business blacklist against the two comedy club owners.
Amarjeet then struck out the judicial review and made no order on costs.
Criminal charges against Rizal
The revelation contrasted with what then-deputy federal territories minister Jalaluddin Alias reportedly said on Aug 17 last year, that Rizal had been permanently blacklisted from registering a business licence in Kuala Lumpur.
On Nov 27 the same year, the comedy club owners went to the civil court to challenge the alleged permanent blacklist against them.
Following the furore over the controversial stand-up show, Rizal was also hauled to the criminal court where he claimed trial to charges against him for creating and initiating the distribution of videos that touched on racial sensitivity on social media.
However, on July 7 this year, the criminal court fined Rizal RM8,000, after he pleaded guilty to one of the three charges under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. - Mkini
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