High Court orders exco member to pay ex-rep RM3,000 in costs
Tapah High Court orders the payment of costs after allowing Satees Muniandy's application to transfer a defamation suit to a lower court.
Perak executive councillor A Sivanesan has been ordered by the Tapah High Court to pay RM3,000 in costs to former Penang assemblyman Satees Muniandy. The dispute arose from a TikTok video uploaded by Satees in June last year, which Sivanesan claims is defamatory. The court has agreed that the Butterworth sessions court is the most suitable venue for the case, given Satees' residence in Bukit Mertajam.
Sivanesan is seeking an order to stop Satees and his representatives from publishing or sharing further defamatory material about him until the case is resolved. Additionally, Sivanesan is requesting the video's removal, general, aggravated, and exemplary damages, as well as front-page retractions and apologies in three Tamil-language newspapers, and an apology video on TikTok via the account @satees_urimai, kept online for a month with the account remaining public.
Satees is being represented by Shamsher Singh Thind, while Sivanesan is represented by Joshua Choong.
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