KUALA LUMPUR – The high court here today allowed a bid by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) to proceed with its legal challenge against its deregistration by the Registrar of Societies (RoS).
The group’s lawyer, Annou Xavier, said judge Datuk Mariana Yahya granted his client’s application for leave for a judicial review after hearing submissions from both parties via online proceedings.
“The court has fixed March 8 for mention of the judicial review application.”
On December 22 last year, Hindraf, through its officer-bearer former minister P. Waytha Moorthy, filed a leave application challenging the validity of two decisions related to the deregistration of the organisation.
The first is a decision by the RoS director-general on September 30, 2019 to deregister the group, while the second is against a decision by the home minister on August 7 last year to uphold the earlier decision.
Hindraf is seeking a declaration that the two decisions to deregister it are illegal and thus null and void, as well as an order to temporarily suspend the decisions pending disposal of the judicial review application. – Bernama, February 22, 2021
