On March 7, former MIC deputy president Datuk S. Subramaniam, former MIC Youth chief A. Vigneswaran and former Kedah assemblyman and MIC central committee member Datuk S. Ganesan, had won the injunction to stop Samy Vellu from going ahead with a meeting that would have expanded the number of MIED members by 10.
The trio today also secured a fresh injunction barring the expansion of MIC’s cash-rich education arm, when High Court judge Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof issued a new order valid until the matter was resolved.
The hearing for the application has been set for June 20.
The three men are demanding that both Tan Sri Dr T. Marimuthu and Samy Vellu, who recently stepped down as MIC president, relinquish their posts in the MIED until the RM100 million suit filed against them last year is disposed off.
Samy Vellu, MIC president Datuk G. Palanivel, Tan Sri M. Mahalingam, Marimuthu, Tan Sri Dr SK Ampikaipakam, Tan Sri Dr KS Nijhar, Tan Sri K. Kumaran and Tan Sri G. Vadiveloo are currently facing a lawsuit by MIED, which was initiated by Vigneswaran.
Mahalingam and Kumaran are no longer members of the board.
In the suit, filed on July 5, MIED claimed that all the defendants had breached their fiduciary and statutory duties, and failed to discharge their responsibilities as trustees and auditors, which caused MIED to suffer financial losses.
It was also seeking an injunction to restrain Samy Vellu from continuing to helm the institute, that he be stripped of his membership in MIED and for him to return all monies or profits made from MIED either by himself or through family members and close friends.
MIED was also seeking a court order to make Samy Vellu compensate all the financial losses incurred by the institute during his tenure as its chairman as well as damages amounting to RM100 million.
In January, the High Court here had issued a 30-day deadline to Samy Vellu, as the MIED chairman, and seven other board members to furnish several documents in the MIED suit.
Lawyers A. Vasanthi, T. Rajasekaran, David Gurupatham and Suraya Sanusi appeared for the trio, while Samy Vellu and the nine other trustees were represented by Chetan Jethwani.
