Sun2Surf (Malaysia)
PUTRAJAYA (March 29, 2007): The Federal Court yesterday postponed the hearing of former Cambodian police chief Heng Peo’s application to cite two senior immigration officers and a deputy public prosecutor (DPP) for contempt of court.
DPP Tun Majid Tun Hamzah applied for a postponement, saying he needed time to reply to an affidavit filed by Heng Peo’s wife, Ngin Sotheavy, which was only served to him on Monday (March 26).
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Datuk Richard Malanjum, who heads the panel of three judges, said the hearing date will be fixed later.
The other judges are Datuk Hashim Yusoff and Datuk Azmel Ma’amor.
Heng Peo had filed an application to cite the Immigration Department’s director-general, Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, and enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed, and DPP Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria for contempt of court for allegedly misleading the Court of Appeal on Dec 21, which resulted in Heng Peo being swiftly deported to Cambodia, from where he had fled.
Heng Peo was deported on the same day after the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision that he be deported to Singapore, his last point of embarkation before arriving in Malaysia.
The court also denied his lawyer N. Sivanathan’s request for a stay of the deportation.
However, Sivananthan had on the same day filed a notice of appeal to the Federal Court, which convened, but was told that Heng Peo was already put on a private plane to Cambodia within an hour after the Court of Appeal’s decision.
The new affidavit contains the mobile phone statements of the three respondents and another senior immigration officer.
The affidavit alleged that the respondents had communicated with each other and committed perjury.
In his application, Heng Peo alleged that Wahid, Ishak and Hanafiah were fully aware of the arrangements made to deport him to Cambodia, even as his counsel attempted to appeal to the Federal Court.
Heng Peo had fled Cambodia after a court there convicted him in absentia for conspiring in the murder of a municipal court judge.
DPP Tun Majid Tun Hamzah applied for a postponement, saying he needed time to reply to an affidavit filed by Heng Peo’s wife, Ngin Sotheavy, which was only served to him on Monday (March 26).
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Datuk Richard Malanjum, who heads the panel of three judges, said the hearing date will be fixed later.
The other judges are Datuk Hashim Yusoff and Datuk Azmel Ma’amor.
Heng Peo had filed an application to cite the Immigration Department’s director-general, Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, and enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed, and DPP Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria for contempt of court for allegedly misleading the Court of Appeal on Dec 21, which resulted in Heng Peo being swiftly deported to Cambodia, from where he had fled.
Heng Peo was deported on the same day after the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision that he be deported to Singapore, his last point of embarkation before arriving in Malaysia.
The court also denied his lawyer N. Sivanathan’s request for a stay of the deportation.
However, Sivananthan had on the same day filed a notice of appeal to the Federal Court, which convened, but was told that Heng Peo was already put on a private plane to Cambodia within an hour after the Court of Appeal’s decision.
The new affidavit contains the mobile phone statements of the three respondents and another senior immigration officer.
The affidavit alleged that the respondents had communicated with each other and committed perjury.
In his application, Heng Peo alleged that Wahid, Ishak and Hanafiah were fully aware of the arrangements made to deport him to Cambodia, even as his counsel attempted to appeal to the Federal Court.
Heng Peo had fled Cambodia after a court there convicted him in absentia for conspiring in the murder of a municipal court judge.
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