Court has no power to get prosecutor to withdraw charges: CJ thesundaily TengkuMaimun Putrajaya Malaysia
Chief Justice Tan Sri Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat at the taking-of-oath of office and loyalty ceremony of Federal Court and Appeals Court judges, as well as judicial commissioners held at the Conference Hall in the Palace of Justice today. - Bernama: The court does not have the power to direct or urge the public prosecutor to file or withdraw charges against any party in criminal cases,“ said Chief Justice Tan Sri Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.
She said just because there were third parties who disagreed with the prosecutor’s decision not to proceed with the charges which had been filed in court, this does not mean that court or judges had acted dishonestly, conspired, were in favour of any particular party or were involved in corrupt practices.
Tengku Maimun said readers have no way of confirming the validity of what had been written and would assume that whatever written on social media were true.
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