PKNS taken to court

Unhappy tenants seek injunction to halt rental fee increase


(Published in the Star newspaper 7th December 2011 issue: page 25)

SHAH ALAM: The tenants of Kompleks PKNS here have sought an injunction to stop PKNS from increasing their rental fees until the case is tried in court.

The application was filed at the Shah Alam High Court registry here yesterday.

About 100 tenants came to the court complex in a show of protest over the rental increase effective next month.

The application – filed by Persatuan Peniaga-Peniaga Kom­pleks PKNS Shah Alam, through its main officer Amran Yahya – named Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS) as the sole defendant.

In their statement of claim, the tenants said PKNS had built the complex in 1980 to encourage bumiputra entrepreneurs to conduct businesses through reasonable rental rates.

They claimed that on Nov 9, PKNS had, without discussion, given them notice of between two and seven days that the rental would be increased.

They sought a declaration that the increase in rental rates of between 70% and 100% by PKNS was a breach of commercial ethics in rental premise business, null, void and ineffective.

Lawyer Kamarudin Ahmad, who represented the plaintiffs, said 400 tenants were currently affected by the increases, set to take effect on Jan 1.