PROPER CONDUCT? IGP tweets out to the world that police to question news portal's editor over 'inaccurate & confusing' report

In a posting on Twitter, the national police chief said the police will quiz the portal on its motives.

“@PDRMsia akan panggil Ket Editor @tm_insider yg cenderung melapurkan Berita tidak betul dan mengelirukan. PDRM nak tau apa motif TMI ini,” he wrote on the microblogging site.

[Translation: The Royal Malaysian police will summon the editors of The Malaysian Insider, which has a tendency of reporting inaccurate and confusing news. PDRM wants to know what TMI’s motives are]

Khalid did not specify which report or reports he was referring to.

Yesterday, TMI carried a report claiming the Conference of Rulers had rejected Kelantan’s proposed amendments to a federal law meant to enable the enforcement of hudud.

A Kelantan government leader, however, later disputed the article.

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Datuk Mohd Takiyuddin Hassan, who is head of Kelantan’s permanent secretariat on hudud, said yesterday he was informed by Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yaakob that the state’s hudud plans were never presented to the royal council in the first place.

He went on to point out that the implementation of hudud in Kelantan had already received blessings from the royal institution as far back as 1993 when the state’s Shariah Criminal Code II enactment was passed.

This evening, Bernama reported the Keeper of the Rulers’ Seal as denying that the Conference of Rulers had ever issued any statement on PAS’s hudud plans in Kelantan or discussed the matter at its meetings.

In a statement quoted by Bernama, Datuk Seri Syed Danial Syed Ahmad said a report has been lodged at the Jalan Travers police station.

“The Conference of Rulers has never discussed the matter at its meetings.

“The office (of the Keeper of the Rulers’ Seal) did not issue a press statement dated March 25 on the matter,” he reportedly said.

In Parliament later, religious affairs minister Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom confirmed that PAS’s hudud amendments were never presented to the Malay Rulers.

On March 19, PAS-ruled Kelantan passed key amendments to its Shariah Criminal Code II 1993 in a move to enable the eventual implementation of hudud in the Malay-majority east coast state.

The day before, PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang served notice to Parliament on a proposed Bill to amend a federal law to enable Kelantan’s implementation of hudud, but BN’s de facto law minister Datuk Nancy Shukri said it may not make it into the order paper for the current session as there are many others on the schedule.

With DAP and PKR’s rejection, PAS and its 21 MPs in the lower house must rely on all of Umno’s MPs plus more from other non-Muslim parties in order to get a simple majority of 112 votes to get the Bill passed. - Malay Mail