The hearing date was notified by the registry of the apex court to the legal teams representing Ramasamy, Yuneswaran and the Election Commission on May 22.

Yuneswaran won with a majority of 5,669 votes in GE15, held in November last year. He defeated Ramasamy, Perikatan Nasional’s P Poobalan and Pejuang’s Syed Hairoul Faizey for the seat.

Last month, the Muar election court dismissed a petition filed by Ramasamy seeking to nullify the election results in the constituency.

In his petition, Ramasamy claimed Yuneswaran and his agents violated election rules regarding campaign materials. The MIC man also alleged that Yuneswaran distributed food parcels to voters on the campaign trail.

Justice Radzi Abdul Hamid, who sat as an election judge, held that Ramasamy’s petition was defective as it did not comply with the requirements of the Election Offences Act 1954 (EOA).

In his written judgment, he said Ramasamy had on Nov 18 last year alleged that Yuneswaran had “corruptly” given food to voters at a Chinese temple event to influence them to vote for him.

A police report was also lodged by Ramasamy against Yuneswaran over the temple event.

“The single act of treating at the temple cannot be presupposed to have affected the result of the election under Section 32(a) of EOA,” said Radzi.

The court also said Ramasamy had failed to establish the identities of those who attended the temple event and show that they were voters in the constituency.

“It would be necessary to name the recipients of the food packs to make out a case that they were, in fact, Segamat voters and that they were corruptly induced to vote for the respondent (Yuneswaran),” said Radzi.