This showed double standards in the way civil servants were treated, Aziz, a constitutional law professor, said at a forum last night organised by electoral watchdog Bersih 2.0 on Major Zaidi Ahmad.
Zaidi was recently dismissed from the service for breaking protocol in revealing to the public that the May 2013 general election could be compromised because the indelible ink used to mark voters could be easily washed off.
Aziz said if Zaidi was put on trial and punished for going against his superiors, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar should also be tried for going against Cabinet ministers.
The law professor referred to Khalid's statements on safety and security in Sabah which contradicted Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz following an incursion by armed militants and several kidnappings in the northeast coast of the Bornean state.
Nazri had warned tourists that Malaysia could not guarantee the safety of visitors to Sabah due to the recent kidnappings by militants from southern Philippines.
But Khalid refuted this, saying that Sabah was safe as the government had taken all necessary measures to secure it.
Aziz said that Khalid should also be tried as Zaidi was, before a military court, because the IGP was the highest-ranking officer in the police force.
"If Zaidi being tried for going against the orders of his superiors then Khalid should be too," he said.
Police in November had denied that Sabah was unsafe for tourists.
Khalid had also recently contradicted Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on gambler Paul Phua Wei Seng, whom police said was a member of Hong Kong's 14K Triad.
Zahid in a controversial letter to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), however, said Phua was not.
But Khalid had defended the police findings, saying that "there are Malaysians abroad who are known to be members of the triad".
Phua, a Sarawakian, is a former Macau casino junket operator who now faces illegal sports betting charges in Las Vegas, Nevada, after being arrested in a hotel there during last year's FIFA World Cup.
In his letter to the FBI, Zahid said Phua had also helped the Malaysian government with national security projects, something the police had also denied knowledge of.
- TMI
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