“He pointed out that in her judgment for that case, Tengku Maimun had adopted findings suggesting that Anwar had a homosex*al tendency. Henceforth, Karpal argued that it would be inappropriate for Tengku Maimun to preside over the case”. Following Karpel’s submission, Tengku Maimun eventually recused herself from hearing the prosecutor’s appeal “which Anwar eventually lost”. This was when the late Karpal Singh who was the Opposition leader’s lead counsel had on Sept 17, 2013 applied to have Tengku Maimun recused from the panel hearing the appeal. This piece of information was shared on X by former Barisan Nasional (BN) strategic communication deputy director Datuk Eric See-To probably to insinuate PMX’s reluctance to extend Tengku Maimun’s service term which ended on Tuesday (July 1) upon her reaching the mandatory retirement age of 66.