The Orang Asli of Kg Pasu Temerloh today dropped their case against the Pahang government in the Court of Appeal after both sides came to a settlement.

The two parties agreed to withdraw at the behest of a three-member panel chaired by justice Jeffrey Tan Kok Wha given that water and power supply has been reconnected for the community's multi-purpose hall, which is the centre of the dispute.

The Orang Asli initially filed their appeal to challenge a decision by the Temerloh High Court, which ruled that the Pahang government had the right to cut the hall's water and power supply as it was built on state land.

But with the settlement, by way of a consent order, the situation is now back to status quo ante - the Orang Asli insist that the land where their community hall is sitting on is native customary rights land, while the government claims that it is state land.

Lawyer Steven Thiru, representing the community, noted that Tenaga Nasional Berhad and the Water Supply Department have already reconnected both water and power supply.

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