The Syariah Appellate Court today rejected Anwar Ibrahim's application to cite the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court registrar for contempt in the ongoing qazaf application against Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

The PKR de facto leader filed the contempt application on June 2 after registrar Muhammad Khairul Nizam Kassim barred Anwar's lawyer Mohd Rafie Mohd Syafie from attending a case management session on May 16.