The High Court in Kuala Lumpur has fixed Feb 14 for case management of the Kelantan sultan’s brother, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra’s suit against inspector-general of police Ismail Omar and three others relating to his alleged wrongful detention in August 2009.

Deputy Registrar Norhatini Abd Hamid fixed the date in chambers, in which Senior Federal Counsel Azizan Md Arshad represented all the defendants while counsel Inderpal Singh appeared for the plaintiff.

tengku fakhry manohara odelia pinot 260609 Azizan told reporters that further proceedings would be presided over by Justice Zabariah Mohd Yusof while the defendants were required to file their defence before Jan 31 and for Tengku Muhammad Fakhry ( right ) to counter before Feb 13.

The plaintiff filed the RM150 million suit on Dec 9 last year, naming Ismail, the Kelantan sultan’s chief personal bodyguard ASP Norazman Ismail, Kelantan police chief Abdul Rahim Hanafi and the Royal Malaysian Police as the first to fourth defendants respectively.

In his statement of claim, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry alleged that he was wrongfully detained on Aug 30, 2009 in the vicinity of Istana Mahkota Kubang Kerian while driving a Bentley Brooklands car.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry claimed he was driving the vehicle on the instructions of Sultan Ismail Petra to be sent to Singapore, but was prevented from doing so by police personnel who closed the palace gate on the orders of the second and third defendants.

The plaintiff further claimed that police personnel detained him for one hour before allowing him to go out of the palace but without driving the car.

Referring to the detention as mala fide and legally wrongful, he is seeking RM100 million general damages, RM50 million aggravated and exemplary damages, interest at a rate of four percent, costs and others.