The Star (Malaysia)
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has adjourned an application by Cambodia’s deported ex-police chief Heng Pov to cite three senior Government officers for contempt, to allow them time to reply to an application served to them on Monday.
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Richard Malanjum, and Federal Court judges Justices Hashim Yusoff and Azmel Ma’amor allowed Deputy Public Prosecutor Tun Majid Tun Hamzah’s request for the case to be postponed to a date yet to be determined.
Heng Pov’s lawyer N. Sivananthan did not have any objections.
“I feel the cited parties should be allowed time to reply to the affidavit which contains serious allegations against them,” he said.
Heng Pov, 52, is seeking to cite Immigration director-general Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, the department’s enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed and the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ deputy head of prosecution Mohd Hanafiah Zakaria for contempt, for deporting him before he had exhausted all his avenues of appeal here.
Heng Pov, who filed the action in January, had also accused them of orchestrating his premature deportation to Cambodia to serve an 18-year jail sentence for conspiring in the murder of a municipal court judge there.
He was sent home last year on Dec 21, and an urgent convening of the Federal Court here was too late to stop his deportation as he had already been despatched.
The action is supported by the affidavit of his wife Ngin Sotheavy.
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Richard Malanjum, and Federal Court judges Justices Hashim Yusoff and Azmel Ma’amor allowed Deputy Public Prosecutor Tun Majid Tun Hamzah’s request for the case to be postponed to a date yet to be determined.
Heng Pov’s lawyer N. Sivananthan did not have any objections.
“I feel the cited parties should be allowed time to reply to the affidavit which contains serious allegations against them,” he said.
Heng Pov, 52, is seeking to cite Immigration director-general Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, the department’s enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed and the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ deputy head of prosecution Mohd Hanafiah Zakaria for contempt, for deporting him before he had exhausted all his avenues of appeal here.
Heng Pov, who filed the action in January, had also accused them of orchestrating his premature deportation to Cambodia to serve an 18-year jail sentence for conspiring in the murder of a municipal court judge there.
He was sent home last year on Dec 21, and an urgent convening of the Federal Court here was too late to stop his deportation as he had already been despatched.
The action is supported by the affidavit of his wife Ngin Sotheavy.
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