Ehsan Bina had lost their bid to evict the villagers after it was denied leave to appeal their case to the Federal Court on March 7.
In the lawsuit filed in May this year, Ehsan Bina Sdn Bhd and director Koi Chor Koon claimed they bought the land on which the village is located in 2012.
The company named 20 villagers in the current suit as defendants along with other unnamed villagers.
However, 15 of the villagers named contended the suit was “ambiguous” as Ehsan Bina did not specify the total number of unnamed villagers.
Lawyer for the 15 villagers, Dinesh Muttal, said he told High Court Judicial Commissioner Roslan A Bakar during a mention hearing today that he rejected a supposed consent judgment agreed between Ehsan Bina and five of the villagers named in the suit along with the unnamed villagers.
“The court should not allow for a consent if there was no clarity on the names and the consent was also disputed,” he said.
JC Roslan fixed another case management date on Oct 9 to let the villagers and the developer sort out the unidentified names and details of the consent judgment.
Earlier today, about 30 villagers came to the court to show support for their case.
The villagers, led by their representative Azman Mohd Taib, also brought placards carrying the words “kami mahu rumah ganti rumah” (we want a house for house replacement) and “hentikan pengusiran paksa” (stop the forced eviction).
After the hearing ended, Azman and his fellow villagers gathered outside the courtroom, and raised the placards to show their dissatisfaction with the developer’s action.
Azman told reporters that the villagers had lived on the land for over 40 years and called the place home.
“The developer had previously coerced some villagers to sign an agreement that they will move out and they would only get RM7,000 as compensation,” he claimed.
Azman claimed the villagers who signed the agreement with the developer had not received a copy of the agreement.
“I did not sign the so-called agreement as I am not afraid and do not agree to the terms,” he added.
Previously, Azman and the villagers lodged a police report against the developer for allegedly harassing them to surrender their homes.
The villagers claimed they were threatened with a lawsuit if they refused to agree to the company’s offer.