KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Religious authorities fingered in Suhakam inquiry

Suhakam resumed its inquiry into alleged "enforced disappearances" in the case of Amri Che Mat after it was forced to suspend the inquiry into pastor Raymond Koh.

Amri's wife Norhayati Ariffin testified that Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin was present when police and state religious authorities raided their home and the office of Perlis Hope, an NGO co-founded by her husband.

She also complained that Perlis police were reluctant to act following her husband's abduction.

Responding to Norhayati's accusation, Asri claimed Amri had links to Syiah Islam, considered deviant by the government in Malaysia, which largely comprises Sunni Muslims.

Azmin's message for PAS

Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali questioned why PAS wanted to take over the Selangor government when it is already part of the state government, together with PKR and DAP.

Azmin also urged PAS state assemblypersons facing funding issues to engage with him or the district officers instead of dragging the Selangor royal palace into the matter.

Selangor PKR Youth secretary Syed Badli Shah Syed Osman lashed out at PAS for wanting to capture Selangor on its own, and he called on the party to quit the current coalition state government.

PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Mat spoke out against the campaign to spoil votes, stating that the people should instead vote for PAS if they disagreed with both BN and Pakatan Harapan.

Bid to block Najib's stay in 1MDB matter

Gerakan Anak Muda Tolak Najib (GANT1), a Harapan-linked organisation, objected to a stay application by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and 1MDB against filing their defence.

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim was briefly taken out from prison for his defamation suit, in which he testified that the authorities failed to act on a false police report claiming that he had a Singapore bank account that he used to bribe the judiciary.

Permatang Pauh Umno division chief Zaidi Mohd Said claimed his party would be able to end "Anwar's family dynasty" in Permatang Pauh during the 14th general elections.

Other Kinibites

A group of supporters turned up at the Klang Magistrate's Court in support of Amiruddin @ Nadarajan Abdullah, better known as Dr Ganja, insisting that medical use of marijuana should not be a criminal offence.

Police successfully tracked down and arrested the man who was believed to have been captured in a viral video molesting a seven-year-old girl.

Police also arrested a man who slapped a woman for not wearing a tudung.

The Exchange 106, a tower development under Najib, is set to rise above the Petronas Twin Towers, with its completion expected in the second quarter of this year.

MACC denied double standards in its handling of the Penang tunnel project.

Looking ahead

The Federal Court will hear the National Registration Department's appeal against a Court of Appeal decision that the department cannot force children born out of wedlock to carry the "bin Abdullah" name.

Anwar will again be out of prison to testify in his defamation suit at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur.

Najib will deliver a keynote address at Invest Malaysia.