By Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's appeals court on Monday granted a bid by jailed ex-premier Najib Razak to see a document he said should allow him to serve his sentence at home, in a rare win for a disgraced former leader at the heart of the country's biggest scandal.

Malaysia’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak has won an appeal to pursue his bid to serve his remaining corruption sentence under house arrest

In a split decision, the Court of Appeal on Monday has ordered the High Court to hear the merits of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s judicial review.

Malaysia's appeals court granted on Monday a bid by jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to obtain a document that he said would allow him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence at home.

The crowd comprised those from his Umno party as well as opposition alliance Perikatan Nasional. Read more at straitstimes.com.