Former Election Commission (EC) chairperson Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman has denied that there was any destruction of the addresses and locality names of voters during his tenure.

Rashid said this in an affidavit dated Oct 6, which was produced at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today, in the hearing of the Selangor government's challenge of the recent delimitation exercise in the state.

An affidavit in support from the present EC chairperson Mohd Hashim Abdullah, as well as a submission made by a senior federal counsel for the EC, had said that such information had been "dilupuskan" (destroyed)...