Court dismisses companies’ appeal over Tongod NCR land claim


KOTA KINABALU: Residents in seven villages in Sabah’s east coast Tongod region are now closer to the goal of their long legal battle to reclaim their ancestral land following a High Court decision to allow their case to go to trial.

Delivering the ruling in chambers, Justice Abdul Rahman Sebli dismissed an appeal by three companies to strike out the plaintiffs’ claim and fixed trial to begin on Sept 18.

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