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Welcome to Shahrukh Khan’s Palace- Part 2
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Batu Puteh goes to Singapore
However, the 16-member panel in a 15 to 1 decision said Malaysia has sovereignty over one of the island’s two rocky outcrops - Middle Rocks, which lies south of Pulau Batu Puteh.
On the other outcrop named South Ledge, the court handed a 15 to 1 judgment stating that it belonged to “the state in the territorial waters of which it is located”.
Singapore operates lighthouse for 130 years
Malaysia claimed original title to Pulau Batu Puteh (left), while Singapore, which knows the islet as Pedra Branca argued that sovereignty had passed to it tacitly, having operated the Horsburgh Lighthouse on the island for more than 130 years without any protest from its neighbour.
The court found that the Malaysian sultanate-turned-province of Johor had held the original title but had taken “no action at all” regarding the island for more than a century.
“The court concludes … that by 1980 sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh had passed to Singapore,” Al-Khasawneh said.
The dispute over Pulau Batu Puteh arose when Singapore protested in 1980 against a new Malaysian map of its maritime boundaries which claimed the islet for itself.
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