The Malaysian Bar filed a fresh application challenging Najib Razak’s house arrest on Tuesday.KUALA LUMPUR: The government has moved to block the Malaysian Bar's fresh application to challenge the decision allowing former prime minister Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his SRC International prison sentence under house arrest.

Senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly told High Court judge S Indra Nehru today that the government only received the court documents on the Bar's new legal challenge on Tuesday.

He said the team from the Attorney-General's Chambers needed time to review the cause papers and prepare a reply.

"We will object to this application because the decision (to grant Najib the conditional pardon) is non-justiciable," Hanir said.