KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has freed dancer Bilqis Hijjas, who was charged with dropping yellow balloons at an event attended by former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
The popular personality was freed after the prosecution said it did not wish to continue with its appeal against an earlier court decision to free her under the Minor Offences Act.
Deputy public prosecutor Nur Hafizah Rajuni informed High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali of the decision to drop the appeal today.
Bilqis has previously been acquitted twice by the Magistrate’s Court in 2016 and last year under Section 14 of the Minor Offences Act.
She was accused of dropping the balloons from the fifth floor of the Pavilion shopping mall in Bukit Bintang on Aug 31, 2015 while Najib and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor were attending the DiverseCity 2015 Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival on the ground floor.
Speaking to reporters later, Bilqis who was represented by lawyer Eric Paulsen, said she was relieved that the case had finally ended.
“I am happy this has finally come to an end...It has been three years,” she said.