Sanjeevan quizzed over 'police bullet' tweet

MyWatch chairperson R Sri Sanjeevan gave his statement to the police today on his controversial tweet on Sept 30 alleging the possibility that police were involved in his shooting last July.

Sanjeevan, who appeared in a wheelchair, gave his statement at the Tropicana police station in Petaling Jaya for about 35 minutes today.

He had tweeted that the bullet doctors retrieved from his body is said to be from a .38 Smith & Wesson, the type of gun commonly used by the police.

Despite police investigating the tweet, Sanjeevan and his family are upset that police are not investigating the drive-by shooting incident in Bahau, in which he almost lost his life.

"They are investigating the tweet but so far they have not taken any statement from me about the shooting,” he said.

Although Sanjeevan, 29, said the tweet was made on Sept 30, records show it was on Sept 29 that he tweeted “Bullet they took from my ribcage belongs 2 Smith&Wesson .38 model gun. “Coincidentally” its PDRMsia old gun they used.” 

The report on the tweet was lodged by a police officer from Ampang.

Lawyer Latheefa Koya, who accompanied Sanjeevan when his statement was recorded today, told reporters that this constituted police harassment of Sanjeevan.

Sanjeevan said prior to him being shot in Bahau, he had given a tip-off to the Negeri Sembilan police narcotics chief on a drug case and he believes his shooting was related to this case.

“I obtained information from my sources that police are involved with drug pushers and told the narcotics chief this. Why has this not been investigated? 

“The police have also not recorded any statement from me over the shooting and have refused to give me protection when I asked them,” he said.

The first time the police approached him, before today, was to give him back his handphone.

Extortion reports lodged against Sanjeevan

To make matters worse, Sanjeevan is also being investigated for alleged extortion, based on three separate police reports on this lodged against him.

What is strange about those reports, he said, is that they were made after he was shot last July. One of the reports, made in Triang in Pahang, is dated Aug 17 while another two police reports, made in Bahau, are dated Sept 23.

In the police reports implicating Sanjeevan, the complainants say two Indian men came to their shops in May and in June and tried to extort money from them, and that one of them was the MyWatch chairperson.

However, the reports do not state the dates the incidents took place.

Sanjeevan was questioned on the extortion reports against him and Latheefa said her client chose not to answer – and he remains wondering how and why such a matter had come about.

“The police came all the way from Jempol and also from Triang in Pahang to record his statement over these allegations, but they have have not shown any progress on their investigations into the shooting incident,” she said.

No ballistics finding results

Latheefa police have been keeping mum on the outcome of the investigations.

The police had previously said, she added, that Bukit Aman had taken over the investigations but there has not been any such confirmation of this.

“We have not even seen the results of the ballistic tests, and Sanjeevan only tweeted about the bullet after being informed by a source,” she said.

Latheefa and Sanjeevan also questioned Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar's text message sent to his father, P Ramakrishnan, in September, in which Khalid advised him not to take Sanjeevan back to Bahau.

“It is as if IGP Khalid knows something but is not willing to act on it. Why send such a text message?” Latheefa asked.

Following this, Sanjeevan and Latheefa are pressuring the police to set their priorities right and to seriously investigate the attempted killing of Sanjeevan. 

Also present at the press conference were Sanjeevan's mother R Sarasa and father Ramakrishnan.