KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 (Bernama) -- The High Court today struck out a RM100 million defamation brought by Kota Alam Shah state assemblyman M Manoharan against the government, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and three newspapers.

The dailies involved are The Star, The New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia.

Manoharan, who is legal advisor to the banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) and had been detained before under the Internal Security Act (ISA), filed the suit on Sept 11 last year, alleging that they had linked him to terrorism.