Carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishian was today successful in striking out the RM1.9 million suit filed by A Santamil Selvi over the five-year exile in India of her husband, the late P Balasubramaniam (Bala), and her family's exile after a statutory declaration made by Bala.

This comes with the Federal Court allowing Deepak's appeal that the matter need not heard in the High Court.

A five-member bench led by Chief Judge of Malaya Justice Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin allowed Deepak's appeal and made no order on costs.