Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s lawyer, Sulaiman Abdullah on Wednesday withdrew his application to disqualify Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden from prosecuting the PKR de facto leader’s sodomy trial.
Sulaiman initially said Mohd Yusof was involved in Anwar’s “black eye” case 11 years ago.
However, Mohd Yusof submitted an affidavit saying he never saw the investigation papers then.
On Feb 5, Anwar applied to a High Court here to disqualify Mohd Yusof from conducting the prosecution of his sodomy trial.
Anwar also wanted the court to disqualify Mohd Yusof from handling a revision application against a Sessions’ Court judge’s decision to retain his sodomy trial at the lower court.
Sulaiman had said that the grounds for the disqualification application was that Mohd Yusof was involved in the proceedings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry that investigated Anwar’s ‘’black-eye’’ incident in 1998, adding that Mohd Yusof had represented the Attorney-General Chambers.
He asked for two weeks adjournment for both parties to exchange affidavits and prepare written submissions for the court.
Mohd Yusof, who was then the Attorney-General Chambers’ prosecution unit chief, said he was prepared to submit over the preliminary objections raised by the defence on their revision application.
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