A lawyer has denounced what he claims to be the Kelantan Forestry Department’s selective use of the law.

The stand of the Bar Council’s Human Rights Committee co-chairperson Andrew Khoo came in response to a magistrate court decision quashing a logging company's bid to dismantle the Orang Asli blockade at Pos Balar in Gua Musang.

Lawyer Siti Kasim, who represented the Orang Asli community, said that the court agreed that the Orang Asli were the rightful occupiers - that they were in control of the area.