BUKIT MERTAJAM, July 4 -- Sungai Buloh PAS chief Zaharudin Muhammad said yesterday he had attempted to serve a letter of demand to Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim Chee Keong for alleged defamation.

On Facebook, the son-in-law of PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang said he had gone to Sim's constituency service centre twice, but the office was closed.

"The most crucial defamatory claim I'm suing over concerns an insult to the Malaysian Armed Forces. I am 200 per cent confident that he has no grounds to spin this in court," he posted on Facebook.

Free Malaysia Today reported that Zaharudin is seeking RM1.5 million in damages over Sim's remark against him over the promotion of a Chinese officer in the Malaysian Armed Forces.

The letter, ...