KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia and its secretary Datuk Roosme Hamzah succeeded in their High Court bid to throw out a legal challenge against their rejection of Parliamentary questions on 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
Judge Datuk Kamaludin Md Said allowed the duo's application to dismiss the originating summons by Petaling Jaya Selatan Member of Parliament Hee Loy Sian, who had sought to nullify Pandikar's and Roosme's decision to reject his questions.
He made no order as to cost, and no reason was given for the ruling.
This was confirmed by Hee's lawyer N. Surendran after proceedings in chambers today. Surendran said that they will appeal the decision.
Senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan acted for Pandikar and Roosme.
On Aug 2 last year, Hee filed the originating summons which named Roosme and Pandikar as first and second respondents, respectively.
Hee alleged that his assistant Faisal Mustafa emailed 10 questions to Roosme to be presented to ministers during a Parliamentary session in July last year.
He claimed that he was informed – via two letters dated July 21 last year – that the respondents had rejected two of the questions related to 1MDB.