Judicial Commissioner Ab Karim Ab Rahman ruled that the three questions posed by Surendran in challenging the Act have been answered in Prof Azmi Sharom’s challenge. “The three questions have been answered. The High Court does not need to refer the questions to the Federal Court,” he said.

The three questions are whether the Sedition Act was constitutional, whether the Act violates Articles 5, 8, 10 of the Federal Constitution and whether intention being irrelevant was unconstitutional.

JC Ab Karim ordered Surendran to go back for trial at the Sessions Court. “The next mention date at the Sessions Court will be on April 21,” he said.

Surendran was charged for sedition on 28 August 2014 for the comments he made in a Youtube video on Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction in Sodomy 2.

Subsequently, he filed an application in the High Court to refer the questions of constitutionality to the Federal Court.