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And king's right to extend it beyond Aug 1 cannot be challenged, adds the veteran legal eagle.

Shafee told the bench that the additional evidence is necessary as it has bearing on his present appeal.

UPDATED 6.20PM | Ex-premier had sought to remove Sri Ram from prosecuting his 1MDB-linked cases.

UPDATED 4.21PM | Judge dismisses application due to lack of any cogent reason.

PARLIAMENT | 'The note is to someone named Ram, whom I think everyone knows,' says de facto law minister.

The recusal bid follows former AG Apandi Ali's claims that Sri Ram had tried to coax him to play a role to arrest Najib.

The former Federal Court judge is the lead prosecutor for two of the former prime minister's 1MDB-linked trials.

The bid is to recuse Sri Ram from leading the prosecution team in a RM9.5 million money laundering case.

The hearing of the former PM's civil jurisdiction recusal application has been fixed on July 13.

Apandi made allegations against Sri Ram first on Facebook and then in an affidavit.

UPDATED 12.54PM | Defence counsel Shafee Abdullah argues the issue of Sri Ram's disqualification should be decided promptly.

Apandi repeats the claims in an affidavit filed in support of Najib's bid to disqualify Sri Ram in 1MDB case.

‘This is a ploy to discredit Sri Ram so that he is disqualified as lead prosecutor in the 1MDB trial.’

The former PM files application to disqualify the senior counsel backed by an affidavit from former AG Apandi Ali.

He also says that the senior counsel is 'getting too big for his shoes'.

Apandi claims that Gopal Sri Ram told him he was sent by Dr Mahathir Mohamad with the request.

This is because he is the senior DPP in several 1MDB-linked criminal cases involving Najib and his stepson, says Dzulkifli Ahmad.

CORONAVIRUS | Gopal Sri Ram is the senior prosecutor in former PM Najib Abdul Razak's 1MDB trial.