Genesis of the so-called Bentong–Raub Suture of Malay Peninsula does not fit to the model of subduction-related collision. It has evolved from transpression tectonics resulting closure and exhumation of the inland basin which underwent extensive back-arc extension during Triassic. Crust having similar thickness (average ~35 km) below entire Malay Peninsula nagate collision of two separate continental blocks rather supports single continental block that collided with South China continental block during Permo-Triassic. Westward subduction of intervening sea (Proto South China Sea) below Malay Peninsula resulted in widespread I- and S-Type granitization and volcanism in the back-arc basins during Triassic. Extensive occurrence of Permo-Triassic Pahang volcanics of predominantly rhyolitic tuff suggest its derivation from back-arc extension. Back-arc extension, basin development and sedimentation of the central belt of the peninsula continued until Cretaceous. A-Type granite of metaluminous to peraluminous character indicates their emplacement in an intraplate tectonic setting. Malay Peninsula suffered an anticlockwise rotation due to the rifting of Luconia–Dangerous Grounds from the east Asia in the Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary. Extensive ductile and brittle deformation including crustal segmentation, pull-apart fracturing and faulting occurred during the closure and exhumation of the basins developed in the peninsula during Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary. Crustal shortening in the central belt of the peninsula has been accomodated through strike-slip displacement, shearing and uplift.