Thursday July 5, 2007The Star (Malaysia)
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has fixed next Monday to hear an application by Cambodia’s deported ex-police chief Heng Pov to cite three senior government officers for contempt.
On March 28, the application was adjourned on the request of the prosecution to allow it time to reply to Heng Pov’s application.
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 avenues of appeal.
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 on Dec 21 last year, and an urgent convening of the Federal Court here was too late to stop his deportation.
The action is supported by the affidavit of his wife Ngin Sotheavy.
On March 28, the application was adjourned on the request of the prosecution to allow it time to reply to Heng Pov’s application.
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 avenues of appeal.
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 on Dec 21 last year, and an urgent convening of the Federal Court here was too late to stop his deportation.
The action is supported by the affidavit of his wife Ngin Sotheavy.
