00:00The federal court has denied the Election Commission leave to appeal a ruling that it had wrongfully applied COVID-19 restrictions to deny a voter his right to vote at the 2022 Johor state election.
00:15Aircraft engineer R.K. Tamileswaran, a registered voter in Skudai, had challenged the EC's decision to bar him from entering the polling station despite producing a negative self-test result on polling day.
00:30His judicial review was dismissed by the High Court in 2022, but the Court of Appeal overturned that decision earlier this year.
00:38Delivering the unanimous ruling, Chief Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Saleh said there was no novel issue for the Apex Court to determine.
00:49In his suit, Tamileswaran said he had been instructed to undergo home quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19.
00:57On polling day, March 12, 2022, he was on his sixth day of quarantine and despite testing negative at 11.58am, he was denied entry to vote.
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