Mahkamah hantar semula kes pikat Daphne ke Mahkamah MajistretPUTRAJAYA: Mahkamah Persekutuan di sini, hari ini menghantar semula kes saman peribadi berhubung dakwaan memikat model dan pengacara Televisyen, Daphne Iking, ke Mahkamah Majistret bagi perbicaraan.
Panel tiga hakim, diketuai oleh Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Zaki Azmi, membuat arahan itu selepas membatalkan permohonan rujukan kepada Mahkamah Persekutuan bagi menentukan persoalan berhubung perlembagaan, dengan pihak yang berkenaan bebas memfailkan semula permohonan itu selepas selesai perbicaraan.
Zaki berkata, majistret perlu memutuskan fakta kes sebelum pihak yang terbabit boleh memohon untuk merujuk kepada Mahkamah Persekutuan bagi menentukan persoalan di sisi perlembagaan.
"Kita tidak jawab soalan undang-undang tanpa fakta atau soalan andaian." katanya yang bersidang bersama Hakim Besar Malaya, Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria dan hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan, Datuk Seri Md Raus Sharif.
Zaki kemudian mengarahkan supaya perbicaraan kes itu didengar awal di Mahkamah Majistret Kuala Lumpur pada 29 November ini.
Pada 25 Ogos tahun lalu, Mahkamah Tinggi merujuk kes itu ke Mahkamah Persekutuan selepas memutuskan terdapat merit pada permohonan Daren Choy Khin Ming untuk isu membabitkan Perlembagaan Persekutuan ditentukan oleh Mahkamah Persekutuan.
Antara persoalan yang dicabar termasuk kesahihan Seksyen 498 Kanun Keseksaan di mana kes saman itu disandarkan.
Bekas suami Iking, Ryan Chong Chong Yiing Yih, 32 sudah mengemukakan saman peribadi terhadap Choy 45, kerana memikat Iking, 31, dengan niat supaya wanita itu melakukan persetubuhan dengannya di kondominium The Plaza, Jalan Wan Kadir, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, antara Julai 2007 dan September 2008.
Jika sabit kesalahan mengikut Seksyen 498 Kanun Keseksaan, Choy boleh dihukum penjara sehingga dua tahun atau denda atau kedua-dua sekali.
Iking berkahwin dengan Chong pada 27 Januari 2007 di Bali, Indonesia dan pasangan itu mempunyai seorang anak perempuan, Isobel Daniella Iking-Chong.
Pasangan itu bagaimanapun, bercerai pada 2008.
Choy diwakili peguam Datuk Jagjit Singh dan Akberdin Abdul Kader manakala Chong pula oleh Wong Kian Kheong. - BERNAMA
Women are silly enough to be 'enticed'?
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A beautiful Malaysian celebrity has found herself in the middle of an extraordinary court case in which her husband has accused another man of 'enticing' his wife.
Ms Daphne Iking, 30, is a familiar face on Malaysian TV as a presenter and TV show host.
She married Mr Ryan Chong in January 2007 on the resort island of Bali and the couple now have a daughter Isobel, who is 21 months old.
Mr Chong has dragged Mr Choy Khin Ming, a managing director, to court under Section 498 of the Penal Code for 'enticing or taking away or detaining with a criminal intent a married woman', The Star newspaper reported.
On Thursday, Mr Choy, dressed smartly in a white shirt and black trousers, stood in the dock as his lawyers and Mr Chong's lawyers appeared before magistrate Mohd Faizi Che Abu, the report said.
The appearance of two other lawyers took the court by surprise but one of them said that they were there to hold a watching brief for Ms Iking, the newspaper added.
One of the lawyers, Ms Pushpa Ratnam, told the magistrate that she would make a formal application to challenge the summons and the constitutionality of Section 498.
'It is archaic and no longer has a place in society,' she was quoted as saying.
'It is a total affront to women to suggest that we can be so easily enticed and stupid enough to be enticed.'
Ms Iking, 30, who is from Sabah, first made her foray into TV several years ago as the host of Explorace, a Malaysian reality show much like the Amazing Race. She is featured regularly in magazines, advertisements and TV commercials.
The current case has raised eyebrows and attracted a lot of interest in Malaysia because of her celebrity status. Her father, Mr Moses Iking, is a politician in Sabah.
According to a Star online report in 2006, the couple first met in October 2005 on the set of a TV series. Mr Chong was the executive producer at the time while she was one of the stars of the show.
They started dating in 2006 and after a six-month courtship, Mr Chong proposed to her in July. Friends had asked her if she was doing the right thing after such a short courtship.
She insisted they were a perfect match.
'Ryan is a brilliant young businessman. I am a Catholic Kadazan from Sabah and he is also a Christian, so spiritually we are one,' she was quoted as saying in the report.
In an interview with The Star last year, Ms Iking recalled how she had started working at a very young age for the things she wanted in life.
'I started waitressing at the age of 15 because I so badly wanted a pair of rollerblades,' she had said.
She later took up part-time work while studying for her degree and then her master's in broadcasting and communications at Universiti Sains Malaysia.
On Thursday, the lawyers representing the two men got into a heated argument over an application to adjourn the trial. Mr Choy's lead counsel Jagjit Singh sought an adjournment on the grounds that he had just recovered from a heart ailment and needed more time to study the case. But the lawyer for Mr Chong, Mr Wong Kian Kheong, argued that the trial could continue and suggested to the court that Mr Jagjit conduct cross-examinations in October.
Mr Mohd Faizi adjourned the case and said that Mr Jagjit could cross-examine in October if he felt unwell.
This article was first published in The Straits Times.
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