PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar won today a defamation suit against retired top policeman Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar and Umno’s Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
The High Court also awarded her a total of RM1 million in damages, ordering former inspector-general of police Khalid to pay RM400,000 while Ismail, the caretaker rural and regional development minister, must pay RM600,000.
Judicial Commissioner Datuk Faizah Jamaludin said the court found that both Khalid and Ismail had defamed Nurul Izzah at two separate functions in 2015 concerning the incumbent Lembah Pantai MP’s meeting with Filipina Jacel Kiram who was a member of a group that had planned to go to war against Malaysia.
“The statements in its natural and ordinary meaning had defamed the plaintiff,” Faizah said in her ruling.
She said the statements conveyed to the ordinary reasonable man that in meeting Jacel, Nurul Izzah was a terrorist and had committed treason by declaring war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
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