P Uthayakumar, lawyer for the devotees, said a discussion with Kepong Development Sdn Bhd and the Kuala Lumpur Datuk Bandar Mohd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz was necessary to sort out the issue of the temple’s location.
“Even though we won the case, we still need to speak to the developer to solve this case amicably,” he said today.
Former deputy minister Tan Chai Ho, who was with Uthayakumar, hoped the developer would agree to a win-win solution for both parties.
Kepong Development filed a lawsuit on Dec 7 last year seeking to demolish the temple and evict the devotees.
The devotees had asked the developer to relocate the temple to another site.
On June 22, High Court judge Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab ruled that Kepong Development had named the wrong defendants, namely Ng Ah Sang and those whose names were unknown, as occupants of three plots of land in Taman Kepong in its lawsuit.
According to Uthayakumar, the ruling meant the temple was not a trespasser or squatter on the land as claimed by Kepong Development.
The court also ordered Kepong Development to pay costs of RM3,000 to the temple.
During the tussle with the company, Tan and other devotees gathered outside Kuala Lumpur City Hall headquarters earlier this year to urge the authorities to save their place of worship.
The Hock Sui Tong temple was erected more than 63 years ago and is a place of worship for over 1,000 devotees.