April 4 hearing on bid by Najib, three others to strike out Deepak’s suit

KUALA LUMPUR: The applications by former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and three others to strike out the RM676 million suit by carpet businessman J.R. Deepak Jaikishan will be heard on April 4.

Lawyer Irzan Iswat Mohd Noor, representing Deepak, 46, said the hearing would be before High Court judge Datuk Azimah Omar.

He said Najib and his wife, Datin Sri Rosmah Mansor, filed the application last Jan 7, while the other two defendants – Boustead Holdings BHd and its subsidiary, Bakti Wira Development Sdn Bhd – filed their application on Dec 17 last year.

“Among the grounds given by all the defendants to strike out the suit was that they were not involved in the alleged conspiracy,” he told reporters after the case management before deputy registrar Farah Shuhada Ramli here yesterday.

On Oct 12 last year, Deepak filed the suit claiming that he had suffered losses due to conspiracy, fraud and undue influence by the defendants in a property deal that allegedly caused his company to suffer huge losses.

Deepak claimed that as a director and majority shareholder of Astacanggih Sdn. Bhd, he had signed a land deal with the director and majority shareholder of Awan Megah (M) Sdn. Bhd, Raja Ropiaah Raja Abdullah, over three pieces of land, involving 181.9 hectare in Mukim Kapar, Klang and Mukim Bukit Raja, in the Petaling district.