KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has denied former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s request to initiate a judicial review over his claim of a royal order allowing house arrest during his jail sentence, citing hearsay in supporting affidavits.
He claimed that Tengku Zafrul had told him the former Yang di-Pertuan Agong had shown him the addendum order and that Tengku Zafrul had taken a photograph of it. “I find that both affidavits are, at their highest, pure hearsay. Apart from that, the applicant had averred that his solicitors had written to the respondents concerning the same without receiving a reply.
He named the Home Minister, the Commissioner General of Prisons, the Attorney General, the Federal Territories Pardons Board, the Minister at the Prime Minister’s Department , the director-general of legal affairs at the Prime Minister’s Department, and the government as the first to seventh respondents, respectively.