Pengurusan kuil tarik balik rayuan perhidup injunksi terhadap pemilik tanah

The management of Sri Uchimalai Muniswaran Temple has withdrawn its application to revive the High Court injunction that barred the Kubra Foundation from carrying out renovation work on the Hindu temple in Rawang. Lawyer Amanda Sonia Mathew, representing the temple management, informed the three-member panel of the Malaysian Federal Court that she had been instructed to withdraw the application for a declaratory judgment.

Given that the case began at the Sessions Court, the temple management needed to obtain a ruling from the Federal Court before the appeal could be heard. Judge Noorin Badaruddin, presiding over the panel alongside Radzi Abdul Hamid and Meor Hashimi Abdul Hamid, dismissed the application and ordered the temple management to pay a fee of RM10,000 to the Kubra Foundation.

The Kubra Foundation was represented by Ahmad Khalil Rofiee, Hariz Yusoff, Zainal Rijal Abu Bakar, Danial Farhan Zainal Rijal, and Arham Rahimy. On March 31, the High Court dismissed the Selayang Sessions Court injunction barring the Kubra Foundation from obstructing the temple's renovation. The injunction was issued on March 13 after Judge Chai Guan Hock ruled that the Kubra Foundation could not carry out the temple renovation due to a dispute over the land.

Chai noted that the temple had existed on the site since 1995, while the land's current owner had held it since 2021. The controversy came to public attention on February 11 when police detained four men suspected of attempting to break into part of the temple. Police chief Shazeli Kahar stated that the investigation found the men had entered the temple without first consulting temple management or notifying local authorities.

They were subsequently released. Although the temple management did not contest the Kubra Foundation's ownership of the land, it remained adamant that obstructing a portion of the temple was not legal under the law.