Anwars RM10m suit against Chandra set for case management on Feb 23
December 29, 2010
AnwarKUALA LUMPUR, Dec twenty-nine The High Court here today set Feb twenty-three for box government of Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's RM10 million defamation suit against academician as well as Just World Movement boss Dr Chandra Muzaffar.High Court senior assistant registrar Anisah Normah Muhammad Nor fixed a date in chambers when a box came up for box management. Counsel Wan Anuar Shaddat Mohamed Amin appeared for Anwar whilst Mohd Zaharudeen Harun is representing Chandra.On Mar 6, 2008, Anwar sued Chandra over his purported insulting remarks during a forum during Menara Star in Petaling Jaya upon Mar 3, 2008, that were subsequently published in newspapers.He claimed that Chandra spoke a offending words to disparage him in both his private as well as official capacities, together with as former deputy budding minister as well as former finance minister as well as purported that a insulting comments, between alternative things, meant that he promoted as well as incited racial loathing between a races in Malaysia.In his matter of counterclaim filed upon May 16, 2008, Chandra denied having spoken malicious, fake or insulting comments about Anwar, that a opposition leader claimed were published in two local English newspapers upon Mar 5, 2008.Alternatively, he claimed that if a words were defamatory, that he denied, afterwards they were published upon an occasion of qualified privilege but malice. Bernama
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