Birthday boy treats cops to karipap during two-hour grilling

Lawyer Americk Sidhu, who turned 59 today, served karipap (local curry puffs) and pisang goreng (banana fritters) to police officers while he was grilled for some two hours over his client’s explosive statutory declaration.

"It takes a long time to type," he told reporters later when asked on the lengthy question time.

According to him, the officers from Bukit Aman, who arrived at his office in Ampang at 3pm, posed "very general questions" on the SD and he cooperated with them.

"Nothing to complain," he said.

The police zeroed in on Americk after his client Charles Suresh Morais returned to the United States where he has been based since 1984 after unveiling his SD to the media last week.

Legal groups had criticised the police for what was described as "harassment" against Americk for doing his duty as a lawyer.

Last Thursday, Charles had made an explosive SD alleging conspiracy in the murder of his brother, deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais.

Charles had also claimed that Kevin had sent him a pen drive containing evidence which implicated individuals in power and that he (Charles) had arranged for it to be revealed if anything should befall him.

The inspector-general of police had previously said that they were investigating Charles under Section 202 of the Criminal Procedure Code for withholding information. -Mkini