GEORGE TOWN: Innuendos and indirect references by former state MIC Youth chief J. Dhinagaran about former Penang Island muni-cipal councillor Tahir Jalaluddin Hussain (pic) is defamatory as it had generated public interest, a High Court here held.
Justice Mohd Zaki Md Yasin in ruling against Dhinagaran, said that in public issues where the parties concerned were widely known, disparaging remarks were still defamatory even though the names of the targeted persons were not mentioned in the remarks.
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