The High Court in Muar has ruled in favour of Nor Qusyairee Norazrul Faiz in his habeas corpus application challenging his detention at the Simpang Renggam Moral Rehabilitation Centre in Johor. (File pic)PETALING JAYA: The home ministry’s advisory board acted beyond its legal powers when it recommended that a farm worker’s preventive detention order be both continued and suspended, the High Court in Muar has ruled.
Judicial Commissioner S Kalyana Kumar said the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act 1985 provided for three distinct recommendations by the board: that a detention order be continued, suspended or revoked.
He said the board could not combine two different outcomes by recommending that the order be “continued and suspended”.
