A grocery shop owner has filed an application at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to challenge the legality of a provision which the cops relied on to detain him over the alleged link to the now-defunct terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

B Subramaniam, 57, is seeking to declare Section 4(5) of the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) as unlawful...