
A three-member bench comprising Justices Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Azman Abdullah and Azmi Ariffin allowed Yong’s application.
Yong’s lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik said the court allowed his client’s application as there were no objections by deputy public prosecutor Atiqah Abdul Karim @ Husaini.
Also representing Yong were lawyers Rajpal Singh and Salim Bashir.
Yong’s appeal has been fixed for hearing at the Court of Appeal on Jan 30 next year.
Among the grounds that Yong wants to include in his petition of appeal is that he had been denied a fair trial as Section 265A of the Criminal Procedure Code, which was invoked by the High Court judge, was unconstitutional.
He also said an inquiry held by the High Court was in breach of natural justice, and consequently had occasioned a miscarriage of justice.
On July 27 last year, the Ipoh High Court found Yong guilty of raping his 23-year-old Indonesian maid in a room of his house in Ipoh, Perak, between 8.15pm and 9.15pm, on July 7, 2019.
Yong, 53, was given a stay of execution pending his appeal to the Court of Appeal.
The High Court also allowed Yong to be released on bail of RM30,000 with one surety and ordered him to surrender his passport to the court.
High Court judge Abdul Wahab Mohamed, in his decision, said the court agreed with the prosecution that Yong’s defence that the rape incident did not occur was not credible and merely a denial and an afterthought.
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