High Court accepts most of witness statement by Ahmad Zahid's press secretary


KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has accepted most of the written witness statement by Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's (pic) press secretary, Major General (R) Datuk Fadzlette Othman Merican Idris Merican, with the exception of some minor lines that were deemed to have injured the character of a prosecution witness.

Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, in his decision, found that three paragraphs - paragraph 17 (parts of), 18 (whole sentence) and 22 (parts of) - were caught under Section 153 of the Evidence Act 1950.

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