Appeal filed over quashing of detention order signed with PM's 'glamour name'

The issue of validity of a preventive detention order signed with the “glamour name” of then home minister Muhyiddin Yassin has gone to the Federal Court.

This followed on the heels of the appeal against the Shah Alam High Court ruling on April 2 which quashed the preventive detention order against Sabahan Awang Sari Lasikan.

On that day, High Court judicial commissioner Norsharidah Awang ruled that the order was defective as it was signed with the name Muhyiddin Yassin, rather than...