GEORGE TOWN: PAS’s Dr Siti Mastura Muhammad will have to fork out RM750,000 after losing a defamation suit brought against her by three DAP leaders.
In a High Court judgement, the Kepala Batas MP was found to have made defamatory statements against DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng, DAP veteran Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang and DAP vice-chairman Teresa Kok.
Justice Quay Chew Soon awarded each plaintiff a further RM25,000 each in costs in proceedings via Zoom on Wednesday (Dec 4).
The suits were initially filed separately by Guan Eng, Kit Siang and Kok in Nov last year (2023) but were later consolidated into a joint trial.
Kit Siang and Guan Eng had filed suits against Mastura for alleging they had blood ties with communist leader Chin Peng.
She had also linked Kit Siang and Guan Eng to former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Mastura had then claimed that Kok is a cousin of Guan Eng’s wife, Betty Chew and is alleged to have made the remarks during a speech in Kemaman, Terengganu, on Nov 4 (2023).
MORE TO COME
