Deputy public prosecutor Zaki Asyraf Zubir informed the Sessions Court that they were not pursuing the case against N. Surendran.
Lawyer Latheefa Koya then applied to judge Emelia Kaswati Mohamad Khalid for an order to discharge and acquit Surendran.
Asyraf said he was not objecting to the application.
Surendran, a lawyer and former Padang Serai MP, was charged with uttering seditious remarks relating to Anwar’s second sodomy case at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya on Aug 8, 2014.
Last month, he was also acquitted of another sedition charge for releasing a press statement entitled “Court of Appeal’s Fitnah 2 written judgment is flawed, defensive and insupportable” on Aug 14, 2014.
In another Sessions Court, activist Lawrence Jeyaraj was acquitted after Attorney-General (AG) Tommy Thomas accepted his representation to drop the case.
Lawyer Eric Paulsen, who represented Jeyaraj, then applied for his client to be acquitted while deputy public prosecutor Kamarul Aris Kamaluddin said he left the decision to the court.
Sessions Court judge Rohatul Akmar Abdullah then freed Jeyaraj.
He was charged in 2015 under the Sedition Act for publishing a Facebook comment that purportedly said the judiciary had become “underlings of the political masters”, following Anwar’s sodomy verdict by the Federal Court in 2014.
Surendran said he was relieved that he had been cleared of all criminal charges hanging over his head.
“In this present case, the (former) AG-cum-public prosecutor framed a charge following numerous police reports made against me,” he said.
He said former AG Abdul Gani Patail and senior prosecutors should be held accountable.
“A committee should be set up to look into the abuse of process. Many of us were charged because we chose to speak up against the tyranny of the previous Barisan Nasional government,” he said.
Surendran also hoped the Court of Appeal would deliver its decision next month on his legal challenge to strike out the sedition charge in today’s case.
“I hope the three-member bench will deliver its written grounds as guidance to lower courts,” he added.
Jeyaraj, who is a car salesman, said his ordeal of going to court many times was over.
“I wish the Sedition Act is abolished to allow citizens to exercise the right to free and responsible speech,” he added.