GEORGE TOWN: High Court here has granted a stay of execution for Kampung Boundary 5 residents who had applied against an eviction order.

Published: Tuesday April 17, 2012 MYT 11:30:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday April 17, 2012 MYT 12:32:39 PM

Residents get stay order against eviction (Updated)

By JOSEPHINE JALLEH

GEORGE TOWN: A High Court here has granted a stay of execution for Kampung Boundary 5 residents who had applied against an eviction order.

Judge Chew Soo Ho granted the stay of execution Tuesday for the residents of three houses that were set to be demolished by the developer.

The residents were represented by counsel Hardeep Singh Jessy and Harcharan Singh.

Hardeep said the houses were safe from demolition until the residents' appeal against the summary judgment for vacant possession obtained by the developer was heard at the Court of Appeal.

It was reported that the developers had obtained a court order to evict the residents and which was scheduled to be executed by Wednesday.

The Kampung Boundary 5 Residents' Association is currently embroiled in a civil suit with a property developer over the ownership of the 1.6ha village land.

On Feb 15, a High Court in Penang dismissed an application by two land agencies to strike out a suit filed by the villagers claiming that the ownership of their land was unlawfully transferred.

The residents had claimed that the land, which had been physically divided into 46 separate plots, was initially rented out to them in the 1960s, until the respective plots were separately sold to them at different times.