Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is serving a prison sentence for crimes including the theft of money from SRC International Sdn Bhd, wants to spend the remaining time in his prison cell under home arrest.

According to The Star, the former prime minister filed a judicial review appeal in his most recent legal action, arguing that the royal pardon he received on January 29 contained an amendment directive from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong that permitted him to complete his jail sentence under home arrest.

Today, Justice Amarjeet Singh of the High Court will hear the application.

Najib filed it on Monday through the legal firm Messrs. Shafee & Co.

He listed the first through the seventh respondents as the Home Minister, the Attorney General, the Commissioner General of Prisons, the Federal Territories Pardons Board, the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the Director-General of the Legal Affairs at the Prime Minister's Department, and the government.

Najib requested a mandamus order in the notice of application, requiring all respondents or just one to reply and confirm the validity of the amendment order of January 29.

If there is an amendment order, Najib is requesting a mandamus order requiring all or one of the respondents to carry it out.

Additionally, he is requesting a mandamus order requiring each respondent, or just one of them, to provide a copy of the January 29 amendment order and the royal decree.

Najib is also requesting fees and any other remedies the court deems appropriate.

Source: The Star