PKR leader’s belongings sealed for failing to pay damages

GEORGE TOWN: Bailiffs sealed about RM12,000 worth of items in the home of a PKR youth leader here after he failed to pay RM30,000 in damages in a libel suit won by former Penang PKR Wanita chief Aminah Abdullah.

The two bailiffs, accompanied by policemen, showed up at Jelutong PKR Youth chief Khairil Anuar Kamarudin’s home in Jalan Kota Giam in Jelutong at 11.05am yesterday with the writ of seizure and sale.

A man, who is believed to be Khairil Anuar’s father, tried to stop journalists from taking photographs at the house.

“That’s my house and you cannot go near it,” he said while gesturing for the media to leave.

However, after negotiation with PKR members, the press were able to take some photographs from outside the house.

The bailiffs took about an hour to tag and seal items in the home such as electrical goods and furniture.

“The items will be sealed for 14 days in the house and if Khairil Anuar fails to pay the RM30,000 by then, they will be auctioned off,” said Aminah’s counsel Saiful Ambar Abdullah Ambar.

Khairil Anuar, 33, said he lived with 11 other people in the house, including his parents, his wife and their five children. He was at home when the bailiffs came.

Aminah, who quit PKR in July 2007, had brought a libel suit against Khairul Anuar who was then the Jelutong PKR secretary, former Penang PKR Wanita chief Norhayati Jaafar and Bukit Mertajam PKR division deputy chairman Jab Samat over an article carried by the PAS party organ ‘Harakah Daily’.

Penang High Court judge Var­ghese George Varughese ordered the three to pay Aminah RM30,000 each in general damages over their statements in the article titled ‘Kenyataan Aminah bertentangan syariat’ (Aminah’s statement opposes Islamic laws) published on May 2012.

Bailiffs had showed up at Norhayati’s house in Bukit Mertajam on July 11, 2013, with a with a writ of seizure and sale. PKR later settled the sum for Norhayati.