The government has applied to strike out Anwar Ibrahim's latest application to set aside his Sodomy II conviction and sentence, citing the lack of reasonable cause of action and failure to plead justification.

It further argued that Anwar's application was frivolous, vexatious, an abuse of the court process, bordered on sedition and is unconstitutional.

The application to strike out was filed on May 12, but the documents were only served to Anwar's lawyers today, when the matter came up for case management before deputy registrar Erry Shahriman Nor Aripin.

Lawyer Melissa Sasidaran appeared for Anwar while senior federal counsel Tengku Intan Soraya Tengku Ismail represented the government.

In its application, the government also applied for a stay of proceedings until the striking out application is heard.

The court then fixed July 21 for case management on this.

The 69-year-old politician, who was jailed for five years in 2015 for Sodomy II, filed his application on April 17, naming the government as the defendant.

In his statement of claim, Anwar said the government relied on fabricated evidence, in the form of a DNA sample, which he claimed was used to support evidence from complainant Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

He further suggested that the government had intention to injure him by placing Saiful as a truthful witness and that the evidence against him was perjured.

Anwar further contended that the government, through its agents, Saiful and other individuals known to the government, had acted concertedly to place Saiful as a truthful complainant and produced him (Saiful) in the trial and relied on his false testimony to injure him and his reputation.