She said this was because the AGC, which is looking into her police report on alleged judicial meddling in the sedition appeal by her father, the late Karpal Singh, was now representing the chief justice in the same matter.
“I am a complainant in the police report for my father’s sedition case, and I am not sure whether I am going to get a fair trial,” she said after attending her suit at the High Court here.
“We will look into whether there is a conflict of interest,” she added.
The court set Feb 11 for next mention pending a reply from the chief justice to Sangeet’s suit.
Sangeet said the police informed her in November last year that they had forwarded the investigations under Section 228 of the Penal Code for alleged interruption to judicial proceedings to the Selangor AGC office on Oct 29.
“I wrote to the AG yesterday to get an update on my case,” she said.
Sangeet lodged a police report in August last year after fellow lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla claimed a senior judge had meddled with the decision on Karpal’s sedition appeal.
The Court of Appeal had, in 2016, affirmed the late DAP chairman’s conviction in a 2-1 majority ruling. However, it reduced his fine from RM4,000 to RM1,800.
Sangeet filed the suit on Monday, seeking a court declaration that the chief justice had failed in his duty to preserve and protect the integrity of the judiciary.
She said current Chief Justice Richard Malanjum was duty-bound to investigate the two matters in her judicial interference claims.
Besides Karpal’s sedition case, Court of Appeal judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer had said in a forum that a judge interfered in the unilateral conversion case of M Indira Gandhi’s children.
Hamid also said he was “severely reprimanded” by that judge for his dissenting judgment in favour of Indira.
Malanjum previously said the internal probe on the judicial interference claims was halted pending Karpal’s appeal in the Federal Court as well as police investigations.
He added that the probe could not be carried out as the three Court of Appeal judges who heard Karpal’s case were still serving.