BANGI, Nov 12 — The Malaysian Bar has the right to challenge the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s decision allowing former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said the Bar is entitled to mount such a challenge if it believes it has grounds to question the decision.
“But I have always stressed that when we speak of matters under Article 42, it is considered what is referred to as the prerogative of mercy, which we know is among the powers fully vested in the discretion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the power of pardon.
