Has PDRM lost all its commen sense? – Puthan Perumal

Today, I saw on Twitter a very, very sad picture showing Seri Setia state assemblyman, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, in prison clothes and being led by the police in handcuffs. 

You would have thought that this guy is probably a wanted dangerous criminal who had committed some gruesome offence that saw the necessity for him to be remanded for three days by the police for questioning.

It is normal for the police to remand people for the purposes of investigation so as to obtain all facts necessary in relation to a commission of a crime soonest. 

However, one must use their common sense and logic in determining what type of offence has been committed and how dangerous that person might be to potential witnesses of that offence.

We have here a political leader (who is a respected state assemblyman) purportedly involved in the organising of (or is it taking part in?) a purportedly illegal assembly held last Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, and for that he is being investigated. 

So that gives the police the absolute right to firstly, ask for remand when he would have in all probability co-operated with the police,  by turning up at the police station for questioning own his own accord, and secondly, handcuff him?

I was also made to understand that the member of parliament of Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah Anwar, has also been called by the police to give a statement on March 16 for this purported illegal assembly. 

So, if this MP was to march to the police station with followers to give a statement in relation to a previous March, is there a double offence committed?

Recently, we have been seeing the police going to certain individual’s home (who incidentally happen to be from the opposition) at ungodly hours and asking them to go to the police station to give statements. 

Poor Pak Samad (A. Samad Said) happened to be one of them. The question that arises is: why can’t the police wait and have a proper appointment at reasonable hours? 

These are not criminals that are going to flee the country anytime soon. In fact, they have nothing to hide if you ask me.

I sincerely hope that the leaders of the police force would seriously look into this matter and stop this treatment towards political leaders from the opposition.

This kind of treatment by the police towards people having different political views than that of the current government can only give rise to one conclusion. Go figure, is there a double offence committed?

I sincerely hope that the leaders of the police force would seriously look into this matter and stop this treatment towards political leaders from the opposition.

* Puthan Perumal is an advocate & solicitor.

*This article was written taking into consideration, and being fully aware of, the contents of the Sedition Act 1948 (which was promised to be repealed, but strangely has not been) and does not contain any, or meant to have any, seditious tendencies whatsoever in any way. It is purely informative in nature.