Selangor govt ordered to hand over PJD Link impact assessment reports to PJ residents within a month

• High Court judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh also instructed the state government to provide the residents with the detailed design and alignment of the highway project, and instructed that all of these be disclosed in 30 days.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 26): The High Court here has ordered the Selangor government to hand over three key impact assessment reports of the controversial Petaling Jaya Dispersal (PJD) Link project to four Petaling Jaya residents within a month, granting the residents’ judicial review bid in part.

High Court judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh ordered the Selangor government to disclose the environmental impact assessment, the social impact assessment, and the traffic impact assessment reports — produced by consultants of the highway developer, PJD Link (M) Sdn Bhd — to the PJ residents.

He also instructed the state government to provide the residents with the detailed design and alignment of the highway project, and instructed that all of these be disclosed in 30 days.

Amarjeet, however, dismissed the residents’ request for the concession agreement between the federal government and the developer to be disclosed.

The court also awarded RM5,000 in costs to the federal government, which was named as a co-respondent in the case.

The PJ residents — T Chakaravarthi, Kum Koo Ji, S Saktiseelan and Loke Yin Pong — were represented by Lim Wei Jiet, Joshua Wu and Nevyn Vinosh Venudran. The federal government was represented by Kogilambigai Muthusamy, while the Selangor government was represented by Siti Radziah Kamarudin.

The residents filed the application for a judicial review on June 7, 2023, where they named the director general of the Urban and Regional Planning Department, the director of the Selangor Urban and Regional Planning Department, as well as the Selangor and federal governments, as respondents.

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