PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli has applied to set aside a contempt proceeding against him initiated by the National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd and its chairperson Mohd Salleh Ismail.

Rafizi's lawyer, Razlan Hadri Zulkifli, said Salleh and NFC had obtained ex parte leave to initiate committal proceedings from the High Court in Kuala Lumpur last May 23.

“However, the papers were served on us late July. We applied to set aside the committal in August,” he said.

The committal proceedings relate to two articles which appeared on Rafizi’s blog and four articles in Keadilandaily.com, which are said to be related to NFC...