He had been scheduled to be charged on March 17 with defiling a place of worship or a sacred object with the intention of insulting a religion, when he went missing.
Negeri Sembilan police chief Alzafny Ahmad said Tamim surrendered at the Port Dickson police headquarters at about 12.45pm and will be taken to court tomorrow for a remand application, Sinar Harian reported.
He said Tamim had spent more than four months in Thailand before returning to Malaysia through an illegal route at the Kelantan border, after which he surrendered himself to assist in the investigations against him.
“Efforts to track him down had been carried out around Kajang, Selangor, but the investigations found that he was believed to have fled to Thailand through the Bukit Kayu Hitam border on March 9,” he was quoted as saying.
According to Alzafny, police began investigating Tamim for criminal intimidation and making offensive online content after receiving a report on March 10 from a man who claimed he was threatened by the suspect.
A total of 192 police reports were lodged against Tamim following a video showing him allegedly desecrating a trishul, a sacred Hindu object.
Tamim, who had campaigned against what he claimed were “illegal” Hindu temples, said he was unaware that he had desecrated the object, claiming he mistook it for a “rusty piece of metal”.
He had been scheduled to be charged at the Langkawi magistrates’ court on March 17 under Section 295 of the Penal Code with defiling a place of worship or an object held sacred with the intention of insulting a religion.
However, the prosecution sought more time to bring him before the court, saying he was in Saudi Arabia after travelling from Bangkok to Riyadh. - FMT
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