JUDGMENT

Suffian LP (delivering the Judgement of the Court) :

This judgement, delivered with the consent of all concerned under s. 42 of the Courts of Judicature Act, 1964, represents the view of my brother Tan Sri wan Suleiman and my view. Our brother Tan Sri Ali Hassan unfortunately died on 27 Friday May. without formally expressing any view. He had no time to finalise his view because prior to his death he had to go away to London for a month for medical treatment.

This is an appeal by the accused from a decision of Raja Azlan Shah FJ (reported at [1977] 1 MLJ 15 ) convicting him on three'charges as follows: -

First Charge: That you between 22 February 1972, and 24 July 1972. in your office at Kuala Lumpur, then in the State of Selangor, corruptly solicited for a political party, namely, United Malaya National Organisation (UMNO), a gratification, to wit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) from Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp, Kuala Lumpur as an inducement to you, being a member of a public body, namely Government of State of Selangor, to obtain the approval of the Executive Council of the Government of the State of Selangor in respect of an application of t