The editor as well as publishing house of Utusan Malaysia have been ordered to compensate Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad RM60,000 for defaming him in a front page essay a Umno-owned daily published dual years ago.
The total was bound by High Court decider Dr Prasad Sandosham Abraham in Kuala Lumpur today.
Justice Prasad, in his verbal visualisation today, pronounced although he had indicated progressing which a nominal total would be appropriate, a justice is of a perspective which a in accord with compensatory amount should be given.
"After conference submissions upon a emanate of a total to be compensated, we agree a legitimate compensatory amount should be paid out.
"Hence a total of RM60,000 in remuneration is awarded. The justice additionally orders a defendants to compensate costs which will be assessed as well as taxed later," he said.
Representing Khalid (left) was lawyer Mohd Hanipa Maidin, whilst lawyer Mohan Kumar appeared for a defendants.
The decider pronounced he will prepare a full created visualisation in a box inside of two-and-a-half weeks.
Ju! stice Pr asad upon Sept thirty ruled which Utusan Malaysia as well as a publishing house Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd were culpable for libel over a Sept 11, 2009, essay lifted from Bandar Baru Kulim MP Zulkifli Nordin's blog.
Utusan front-paged a report with a streamer Zulkifli bidas Pak Janggut (Zulkifli admonishes Bearded Man).
Khalid, who is a PAS executive committee member, had named Utusan Malaysia as well as Mingguan Malaysia organisation editor-in-chief Aziz Ishak as well as Utusan Melayu Bhd, a publishing house of Utusan Malaysia as well as a Sunday book Mingg! uan Mala ysia, as defendants.
Calling Khalid 'Abu Jahal' as well as 'kafir'
Justice Prasad additionally ruled which calling someone Abu Jahal (the person who persecuted as well as was hostile to Muslims during a time of Prophet Muhammad) as well as kafir (infidel) was, in his mind, a highest insult to a Muslim.
"The justice rejects a counterclaim of competent privilege, for vital in Malaysia we have to subscribe to a sensitivity of all races, unlike laws in Australia or a United Kingdom," he pronounced in his verbal judgment.
"All a defendants have been guilty of downloading a essay from a blog without checking a calm (on a sensitivity)."
Prasad remarkable which a justice cannot accept a reasoning of a Western courts generally in a United Kingdom, Australia as well as additionally Canada.
"I have to adopt a visualisation done b! y former Federal Court decider Gopal Sri Ram in which a media should take in to care a sensitivities of other races as well as religions in partial due to a inlet of Malaysia being done up of so many races. We have to take in to care of a sensitivities of a people as well as of different races," he said.
In statute Utusan Malaysia to be culpable, Justice Prasad pronounced a essay contains insult as a justice finds which a media cannot contend they have been practising leisure of speech, leisure of expression as well as leisure of a media as there is a limitation to it.
"In this case, there is some grade of culpability of libel upon a partial of a publishing house as well as a counterclaim of competent payoff is not tenable," he had ruled in anticipating Utusan Malaysia committing libel.
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