KUALA LUMPUR — The High Court today granted an inter partes injunction in favour of businessman Datuk Seri R. Jeyenderan in his defamation suit against rapper Caprice.
Judge Roslan Mat Nor, who allowed the application, also ordered Caprice, whose real name is Ariz Ramli, to pay RM8,000 in costs to Jeyenderan within two weeks. The court then set December 1 for a case management conference.
Earlier, the court heard submissions from the plaintiff’s counsels, V. Muniandy, Fiona Aurelia Culas and Muhammad Afiq Yahawa, as well as counsel Muhammad Amar Shaaruddin, representing Caprice.
On August 5, the Kuala Lumpur High Court allowed an ad interim injunction sought by Jeyenderan against Caprice and ordered the defendant to immediately remove all defamatory posts about the plaintiff from his Instagram account, which were uploaded in July.
An ad interim injunction is a temporary court order granted before a full hearing, often based on the request of one party alone. In contrast, an inter partes hearing is one where the court hears arguments from both sides before making a decision.
Jeyenderan, the chief executive officer of a shipping company, filed the suit on July 21, claiming that on July 10, the defendant had made several posts on Instagram.
The posts included photographs and videos of him, allegedly linking him to criminal activities, gangsterism and armed threats, without any credible evidence.
