Former ministers Lim Guan Eng and Zuraida Kamaruddin did hold two separate meetings over a Bestari Jaya public housing project for former plantation workers, a witness for the defence told the Shah Alam High Court today.

Former housing and local government director-general Jayaselan Navaratnam, testifying in Lim’s defamation suit against Zuraida, backed her claim that two meetings took place on the matter, one in 2018 and the other in 2019, saying he attended both as an observer.

However, Jayaselan said he did not...