KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 -- The Malaysian Bar, a professional body which represents all of Peninsular Malaysia's lawyers, is not political or partisan, and instead makes its stand based on the law, its president Anand Raj said.

Directly addressing the Malaysian Bar's court challenges or positions in cases involving Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi and former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, he said these challenges are based on legal principles.

It could be any politician, and Bar would still have challenged that DNAA

While there had been other trials where the accused were released from charges via a discharge not amounting to acquittal (DNAA), Anand said Zahid's Yayasan Akalbudi case was unusual as the prosecution req...