His lawyer, Annou Xavier, confirmed the hearing date after case management today.

High Court judge Noorin Badaruddin will hear Hindraf’s legal challenge. Earlier this year, the court gave Hindraf the green light to proceed with the judicial review.

In its application, Hindraf sought a court order to revoke the decisions by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) and the home ministry.

Waytha, the national unity minister under the Pakatan Harapan administration, claimed that RoS’ decision on July 15, 2019 to dissolve Hindraf was wrong in law.

The home ministry subsequently upheld the deregistration on Aug 8, 2020.

“The respondents’ decision breached the principles of natural justice,” Waytha said.

He said RoS sent a letter to Hindraf in 2019 saying it had breached the Societies Act.

“RoS told us that the central committee leadership failed to hold meetings at least eight times a year as required under the law.

“They also said that we kept RM200 in cash, that was over the minimum amount stated under Hindraf’s constitution,” he said.

He said he responded to RoS’ letter on Sept 27, 2019 and attached evidence of notices to call party meetings and the minutes.

“Three days later, RoS issued a letter to inform us they were deregistering Hindraf.

“We lodged an appeal with the minister in October 2019, and were told the deregistration had been upheld,” he said.