Nine parties — including five former students, a student affairs senior assistant, former school principal, Education Ministry director-general and the Malaysian government — were ordered to pay exemplary and aggravated damages to the plaintiff.
Respondents called for a national anti-bullying law, anti-bullying school policies and programmes to counter bullying. Take the case of T. Nhaveen and navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, which received wide media coverage and was a topic on social media that went global with masses questioning the mental health of Malaysian society, especially our youth.He never came out of his coma. Zulfarhan, meanwhile, was tortured by more than 10 students with a steam iron over a missing laptop. He died a few days later. Both cases were in 2017 and are ongoing.