Negri Sembilan files leave to appeal over cross-dressing ruling


On Thursday, Negri Sembilan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan was reported as saying that the state authorities were appealing as the decision to declare Section 66 invalid was "very dangerous". - File pix

PUTRAJAYA: The Negri Sembilan government has filed for leave to appeal before the highest court in the land against a Court of Appeal decision to declare criminalising cross-dressing as unconstitutional. 

Two representatives from the state legal adviser's office filed the notice of motion at the Federal Court chief registrar's office, submitting seven questions of law.  

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