The hearing of a lawsuit by independent speaker Dr Zakir Naik against former Batu Uban assemblyperson S Raveentharan will be heard in the Penang High Court.

This followed a decision by the Federal Court today in dismissing Zakir's (above) application for leave to appeal after allowing a preliminary objection by Raveentharan's lawyers, T Tharumarajah, Kernail Singh, and Asmeeta Rajendran.

Federal Court judge Vernon Ong Lam Kiat said the Court of Appeal's decision in August last year was premised on a preliminary objection raised at the hearing of the appeal and that the appellate court did not...