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Man sues ex-fiancee for
RM70,000 over break-up
SHAH ALAM: A graphic designer
is seeking more than RM70,000 in
compensation from his ex-fiancee
for breaking off their engagement
by text messages in December.
Muhammad Salleh Muhamad
Yusuf, 46, accompanied by lawyer
Ahmad Nazib Johari, filed the appli-
cation at the Lower Syariah Court
here yesterday.
His 28-year-old ex-fiancee, Nur
Diana Ahmad Zubir, was also there
but was unrepresented.
Nazib told the court that his cli-
ent sought the compensation under
Section 15 of the Selangor Islamic
Family Law Enactment 2003.
He said the suit had been served
Azmi grateful his name was cleared: Brother
KUALA LUMPUR: The younger broth-
er of the late Tan Sri Azmi Kamaruddin
said yesterday the former Supreme
Court judge was thankful that his
name had been cleared of the taint
of the 1988 judicial crisis.
Datuk Suhaimi Kamaruddin said
his brother told him three days ago
that “I’m grateful my name has been
cleared before I close my eyes and I
want to express my thanks to those
involved in clearing my name”.
Azmi, 75, died at the Ampang
Hospital here on Monday night and
on Nur Diana but until now he had
not received her document of
defence.
Nur Diana admitted that she was
served the suit on Dec 20 but said
she needed more time to engage
counsel and challenge Salleh’s
demand.
Judge Kamarulzaman Ali fixed
Feb 16 to re-mention the case and
advised Nur Diana to prepare her
document of defence before the
date.
Nazib told reporters later that
Salleh, who works in Switzerland,
sought the compensation because
he had made preparations for the
wedding.
was buried at 12.30pm yesterday at
the Dusun Tua Muslim Cemetery in
Hulu Langat, his family’s ancestral
village.
Azmi is one of six judges who
were removed during the judicial
crisis of 1988.
The others were the then lord
president Tun Salleh Abas, Tan Sri
George Edward Seah Kim Seng, Tan
Sri Wan Hamzah Mohd Salleh, Tan
Sri Eusoffe Abdoolcader and Tan Sri
Wan Suleiman Pawanteh.
On April 18 last year, Prime Minister
He said Salleh was from Malacca
while Nur Diana was from Kuala
Lumpur. They were engaged on Feb
4, 2008, and planned to get married
on Jan 17.
However, he said, Nur Diana’s
father on Dec 4 sent two text mes-
sages to Salleh to break off the
engagement.
“They got engaged based on
mutual consent. The plaintiff did not
know why his fiancee broke off the
engagement. All of a sudden, Nur
Diana’s father sent text messages
asking to break off the engagement
and when he received the text mes-
sages, the plaintiff was in Malaysia,”
Nazib said. – Bernama
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
announced that the six would be giv-
en ex-gratia payments in recognition
of their contribution and to regain
the the judiciary its credibility.
Suhaimi, a deputy minister in the
1980s and former Umno Youth chief,
said his brother had also expressed
the hope that the Chief Justice of the
Federal Court Tan Sri Zaki Azmi would
restore the country’s judiciary to its
former glory, emulating his (Zaki’s)
father, the late former chief justice
Tun Azmi Mohamed. – Bernama
Lawyer ticked off by
Syariah Appeals
Court judges
by Opalyn Mok
newsdesk@thesundaily.com
GEORGE TOWN: A lawyer for the state
Islamic Affairs Council was ticked off by
the Penang Syariah Appeals Court judges
for not presenting a written submission to
the court in the council’s appeal against a
Muslim convert’s case yesterday.
“Why is it that you were ordered to make
a written submission when this case was
mentioned on Dec 4 but you did not comply
with the order?” asked one of the presiding
judges Datuk Ibrahim Lembut.
“You were given a month to prepare and
present the written submission to the court
but you only submitted it today. I want you
to explain why you did not adhere to the
court orders,” he said.
The lawyer, Ahmad Munawir Abdul Aziz,
apologised and told the court: “I must have
misunderstood the court order as I thought
the written submission need only be pre-
sented today.”
Another of the presiding judges, Datuk
Muhammad Asri Abdullah, said it was
not fair for the appellant to present the
written submission only on that day as the
respondent would need time to prepare
a reply.
“The court also needs to have a copy of
the written submission prior to today,” he
said before asking the respondent, Tan Ean
Huang, represented by Ahmad Jailani Abdul
Ghani, if he was ready.
Ahmad Jailani said he did not know what
Ahmad Munawir would be presenting in his
written submission and thus, he may need
some time to respond to the points raised
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Tan with
her lawyer
Ahmad
Jailani
by Ahmad Munawir and asked for a month
to do so.
“Since it took him one month to do the
research for his written submission, I will
need at least a month to do my research to
response to his submission,” he said.
However, the presiding judges did not
agree and fixed today to hear the submis-
sions from both sides. The third presiding
judge is Datuk Abu Bakar Ahmad.
In the case, the council is appealing
against a ruling by the Penang Syariah High
Court to allow Tan to renounce Islam and
revert to Buddhism last May.
Tan, whose Muslim name was Siti Fati-
mah Tan Abdullah, 39, converted to Islam
in July 1998 to marry an Iranian but her
husband left her a few months after their
marriage.
She then filed her application to re-
nounce Islam in May 2006.
After two years, Syariah Court judge
Othman Ibrahim allowed her application
in a landmark decision last May 8.