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Kota Kinabalu: The High Court here ordered for the investigation report by Malaysian authorities into the 1976 plane crash that killed then-Chief Minister Tun Fuad Donald Stephens and others to be declassified and made public within three months.

High Court Judge Datuk Christopher Chin Soo Yin made the Mandamus order during the ruling of a judicial review filed by former Sabah Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Mohd Salleh to declassify the report.

The court ordered the respondents, namely Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, the Minister of Transport and the Government of Malaysia, to take the necessary steps to declassify and/or make public the investigation report before or by June 8 this year.