PUTRAJAYA: Former Lord President Tun Salleh Abbas and five ex-Supreme Counct judges were indeed sacked and the pension paid to them was on “compassionate grounds”.
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who was in charge of the Government’s administration during the 1988 sacking, said that “as far as he knew”, Salleh was “sacked” by the tribunal set up to try him.
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