Decision on Sept 17 over bid to remove LTTE from terror organisation list

The High Court in Kuala Lumpur has set Sept 17 to deliver a decision on a judicial review application by taxi driver V Balamurugan to delist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from being gazetted as a terrorist group.

Judge Mariana Yahya said this after hearing submissions from Balamurugan's (above) counsel Omar Kutty and senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly, who appeared on behalf of the home minister and the government, as the first and second respondents.

Omar later told reporters that there were two parts to the applicant's argument...