Sessions Court Judge Abu Bakar Manat ruled that the application was still premature as evidence had not yet been adduced by the prosecution. The third accused, former State Water Department deputy director Lim Lam Beng, who was jointly charged with former State Water Department director Ag Mohd Tahir Ag Ag Mohd Talib and his wife Fauziah Piut , had applied to expunge certain contents of the witness statement of the prosecution’s 29th witness, Teo Chee Kong.
In some cases, two facts occurring at the same time and place may have no connection between them; but in other cases, two facts separated by a vast distance and place may be parts of the same transaction.