Lawyer and former Padang Serai MP N Surendran has taken Abdul Gani Patail to task for the nine sedition charges laid against political cartoonist Zunar in 2015, asking whether the former attorney-general had properly used his prosecutorial powers when he was in office.

Surendran said while Gani is presently part of the special 1MDB task force set up by the new government, he was responsible for bringing the historically high nine charges against Zunar for sedition...