KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s had been leave his application as a judicial review which is to challenge the Pardons Board’s dismissal of his petition in the royal pardon over his sodomy conviction that will be heard on August 17. Justice Datuk Asmabi Mohamad had been fixed a date in the chambers when the case was brought for mention before him today.
“The judge also granted that his client’s application for a minor amendment to the judicial review papers,” said Anwar’s lawyer Shahid Adli Kamarudin. Anwar wife Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and his daughters Nurul Izzah and Nurul Nuha had filed the application to quash the decision of the board on March 16.
The application that had been filed was to compel it to advise the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong to pardon and release Anwar. Meanwhile, They are also sought the mandamus order which is to compel the board to re-convene a meeting and consider all materials that are relating to the petition for a royal pardon.
In the supporting affidavit of Anwar, 67 had been claimed that the decision which had made by the board was in breach of the rules of natural justice and therefore void. Lastly, Anwar are serving his five-year jail term at the Sungai Buloh Prison after the Federal Court had been upheld his conviction on Feb 10 with the sentence for sodomising his former aideon , Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, in 2008.
