High Court judge Justice Roslan Abu Bakar ordered Pua to pay RM250,000 and Yeo to pay RM150,000 to Chew in general and aggravated damages.Pua and Yeo were found to have defamed Chew in three articles that were published on The Malay Mail Online, Free Malaysia Today and Nanyang Siang Pau in 2017 where it was alleged that Chew had approved the sale of a piece of land to Selangor MCA below the market value when she sat in the District Land Committee.
The judge found that the articles had implied that the plaintiff, as an MP and an MCA member, had used her position and influence in the DLC to enable the acquisition of the said land by MCA below market price and abused her powers and placed herself in a position of conflict of interest, among others."I am satisfied that the plaintiff had successfully proved all the four impugned statements were defamatory of her ," Justice Roslan said in the decision here on Wednesday.
"Thus, the defendants had failed to establish the truth of the statements. As such the defence of justification must fail.
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Wow. fahmi_fadzil syahredzan
Congratulation. The courts can be the rightful platform to sort out slanders and hate speech. DAP is not necessarily on the righteous side always. They too can make mistakes. A mistake is a mistake. Congrats again to Chew Mei Fun.