PUTRAJAYA: The lawsuit by independent speaker Dr Zakir Naik against former Batu Uban assemblyman S. Raveentharan will be heard in the Penang High Court.
This followed a decision by the Federal Court yesterday in dismissing Zakir’s application for leave to appeal after allowing a preliminary objection by Raveentharan’s lawyers, Datuk T. Tharumarajah, Kernail Singh and Asmeeta Rajendran.Federal Court judge Datuk Vernon Ong said the Court of Appeal’s decision in August last year was premised on a preliminary objection raised at the hearing of the appeal and that the appellate court did not proceed to hear the merits of the appeal.