SHAH ALAM: The High Court here has ruled that the move by the Selangor state assembly’s rights and privileges committee to compel lawyer Datuk Mohd Hafarizam Harun to answer charges on alleged contempt of the assembly was null and void.
Justice Zaleha Yusof said the order by the committee in summoning Mohd Hafarizam to a proceeding was ultra vires and contravened the Federal Constitution, state constitution and the state by-laws.
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