KUALA LUMPUR – A former research assistant to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Muhammed Yusoff Rawther has appealed against a high court’s decision that dismissed his application to cancel several paragraphs in the PKR president’s statement of defence and counterclaim.
Lawyer Mahajoth Singh, representing Yusoff, said the appeal was filed at the Court of Appeal last September 28.
“The matter is set for online case management on December 27,” he said when contacted by Bernama today.
Yusoff filed the notice of appeal over a decision by judicial commissioner John Lee Kien How @ Mohd Johan Lee, made last September 9, in dismissing his application to cancel several paragraphs in Anwar’s statement of defence and counterclaim.
It was in relation to a suit he filed against Anwar on July 14, 2021, regarding allegations of sexual assault by the politician four years ago.
In his statement of claim, Yusoff alleged that the sexual assault took place on October 2, 2018, at Anwar’s residence in Segambut.
Yusoff claimed that as a result of the incident, he was accused of plotting to bring down Anwar and damage his political career, and this affected his health mentally.
He is seeking special, general, aggravated and exemplary damages, as well as interest, costs and other relief deem fit by the court.
Anwar then filed a counter-suit over Yusoff’s suit. – Bernama, September 30, 2022
