Indian origin man wants name out of voters roll
25 April 2013 6:21 AM IST
An Indian origin man in London is fighting to have his name removed from the electoral roll of Malaysia, which is going for general elections next month. On finding that his name is registered in Malayasia’s electoral roll, S.K. Dinesh, 32, filed an emergency judicial review application April 4 through a firm, SN Fam & Co, to have his name removed.
However, the high court in Shah Alam, capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, Wednesday denied him leave to initiate judicial proceedings against the EC, The Star newspaper reported. Dinesh had named the EC and its chief registrar as the first and second respondents respectively. An engineer, Dinesh has been a resident of Britain for 15 years.
In his application, Dinesh claimed that he had notified the chief registrar that he had neither registered to be a voter in Malyasia nor had he given the power or authority to anybody to register him as a voter, according to the report.
According to his father K. Siva Kumar, the fact that Dinesh’s name was on the roll came to light when a postcard stating that he was registered voter for the state seat Kota Alam and parliamentary seat Klang arrived at his home address. Dinesh was not present in the court during Wednesday’s hearing, the report said.Malaysia is going for general elections May 5. Indians comprise a little over seven percent of the country’s total population of nearly 30 million.
INDIAN WORKERS ASSURED ALL HELP
Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao has assured expatriate Indian workers in the country’s Eastern Province of all possible help in mitigating their problems following new immigration law. In a meeting held at the Indian School in the provincial capital of Dammam Tuesday, the ambassador took first-hand information about the problems faced by members of the Indian community, the Arab News newspaper reported.
INDIAN ORIGIN CAB DRIVER SHOT
An Indian origin taxi driver in Malaysia was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while having dinner with his family. A. Siva, 36, was having dinner with his family in a restaurant at Puchong, a town in the Malaysian state of Selangor, when, around 9.30 p.m Tuesday, two masked men got down from a car, walked up to him and one of them fired at him. Siva, who was with his wife and eight-year-old daughter at the time, was rushed to a nearby clinic but died on arrival. According to police, Siva was shot at least four times.
However, the high court in Shah Alam, capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, Wednesday denied him leave to initiate judicial proceedings against the EC, The Star newspaper reported. Dinesh had named the EC and its chief registrar as the first and second respondents respectively. An engineer, Dinesh has been a resident of Britain for 15 years.
In his application, Dinesh claimed that he had notified the chief registrar that he had neither registered to be a voter in Malyasia nor had he given the power or authority to anybody to register him as a voter, according to the report.
According to his father K. Siva Kumar, the fact that Dinesh’s name was on the roll came to light when a postcard stating that he was registered voter for the state seat Kota Alam and parliamentary seat Klang arrived at his home address. Dinesh was not present in the court during Wednesday’s hearing, the report said.Malaysia is going for general elections May 5. Indians comprise a little over seven percent of the country’s total population of nearly 30 million.
INDIAN WORKERS ASSURED ALL HELP
Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao has assured expatriate Indian workers in the country’s Eastern Province of all possible help in mitigating their problems following new immigration law. In a meeting held at the Indian School in the provincial capital of Dammam Tuesday, the ambassador took first-hand information about the problems faced by members of the Indian community, the Arab News newspaper reported.
INDIAN ORIGIN CAB DRIVER SHOT
An Indian origin taxi driver in Malaysia was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while having dinner with his family. A. Siva, 36, was having dinner with his family in a restaurant at Puchong, a town in the Malaysian state of Selangor, when, around 9.30 p.m Tuesday, two masked men got down from a car, walked up to him and one of them fired at him. Siva, who was with his wife and eight-year-old daughter at the time, was rushed to a nearby clinic but died on arrival. According to police, Siva was shot at least four times.
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