Kuala Lampur, Oct. 5 -- Sixty-one years ago in 1965, one K.C.I. Reddy commenced an action in the High Court of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur by way of an Originating Summons (OS) for declaration that he was entitled to withdraw the whole of the money standing to his credit with the Employees Provident Fund (EPF).

At the time of the action, Reddy was a magistrate in the Judicial and Legal Service of the Government of the Federation of Malaysia.

He had applied for service in the Judicial and Legal Service of the Government of the Borneo States, intending to leave the States of Malaya for Borneo and had no intention of returning.

In 1965, High Court Judge Raja Azlan Shah (as he then was) was the youngest judge to be appointed, not only to the Hi...