Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng menyelar Ketua Polis Selangor, Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar yang bingkas menafikan ugutan untuk menahannya berhubung ucapan beliau pada Kongres Pakatan Rakyat Disember lalu.Khalid sebelum ini mendakwa Guan Eng akan ditahan dan disoalsiasat kerana mengeluarkan kenyataan mendiang Teoh Beng Hock mati dibunuh.
Namun Ketua Polis Selangor itu mula berdolak dalih dengan mengatakan Guan Eng tidak akan ditahan.
Khalid mewarwarkan akan menahan Setiausaha Agung DAP ini kerana dikatakan beliau enggan memberi kerjasama kepada polis Selangor yang datang ke pejabatnya di Pulau Pinang.
Kenyataan Khalid itu bagaimanapun disanggah Guan Eng, katanya beliau telah memberikan layanan yang baik kepada anggota polis berkenaan disaksikan wakil media tempatan yang hadir membuat liputan.
Sehubungan itu, Guan Eng kesal dengan tindakan Khalid yang cuba memutar belitkan keadaan bukan sahaja mencalarkan imejnya sebagai pemimpin bahkan imej PDRM turut mendapat tempias.
Sebelum ini Khalid juga bingkas memberi respon mahu mengambil tindakan kepada EXCO Selangor, Ean Yong Hian Wah hanya kerana saranannya supaya polis menghentikan siasatan kepada Guan Eng.
Pemerhati politik mengkritik polis yang bergegas mengambil tindakan kepada individu- individu yang langsung tiada kaitan dengan punca kematian Beng Hock sebaliknya membiarkan pihak- pihak berkepentingan kekal bebas.
Sementara itu, Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh berkata, polis tidak boleh menahan Ketua Lim Guan Eng yang enggan memberi keterangan ekoran kenyataannya yang dianggap berupa hasutan pada Konvensyen Pakatan Rakyat Pertama 19 Disember lalu.
“Lim boleh menyaman pihak polis atas penahanan yang salah atau pemenjaraan,” kata Karpal kepada sidang media di sini semalam.
Sambil mengkritik Timbalan Pesuruhjaya Polis Selangor, Khalid Abu Bakar, kerana mengugut untuk mengeluarkan notis di bawah Seksyen 111 Kanun Keseksaan bagi membuat Lim memberi keterangan, Karpal berkata, “pihak polis sepatutnya memberi salinan laporan polis yang dibuat terhadapnya.”
“Saya tidak menempelak pihak polis tetapi mengugut seorang ketua menteri adalah satu perkara yang serius. Saya tidak kata kedudukan ketua menteri berada di atas undang-undang.
“Tetapi seperti warganegara yang lain, beliau (Guan Eng) mempunyai hak untuk meminta salinan laporan polis yang dibuat terhadapnya. Ini supaya membolehkan beliau memberi jawapan dalam konteks pertuduhan dalam laporan itu,” terang beliau.
Cooperate or face arrest, Guan Eng told
Police will arrest Penang Chief Minister if he refuses to give statement on alleged seditious remarks
PETALING JAYA: A warrant of arrest will be issued against Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng if he continues to be uncooperative and refuses to give a statement to police on his alleged seditious remarks.
This is the position of the Selangor police, after saying they could not record Lim's statement last Saturday over seditious remarks he allegedly made during a speech at the first convention of Pakatan Rakyat in Shah Alam on Dec 19.
State police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said he had sent a team to Penang but Lim made it difficult for them.
"We called him and I sent my officers to Penang to record his statement last Saturday, but we were not able to do so." Khalid said Lim's reason for not cooperating was that he wanted a copy of the first information report from police.
"I wish that he will cooperate and make things easy. And to carry out my job, we are forced to send him a notice under Section 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code. (The section empowers police to require the attendance of witnesses)
"This is to compel him to come to us at the Penang police headquarters. If he still refuses to cooperate, and all else fails, then we will issue a warrant of arrest against him."
Khalid said investigations into the case had been postponed a few times.
He voiced frustration over Lim's refusal to assist, saying: "I am not sure if he is trying to delay our investigations. Why won't he cooperate and get on with it?" Lim is alleged to have said at the MBSA auditorium in Shah Alam last Dec 19 that "Teoh Beng Hock was murdered".
A report was lodged against Lim by a police officer the following week, which spurred an investigation under the Sedition Act 1948. Lim was commenting on the death of political aide Teoh, a witness in a case investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in relation to financial allocations for Selangor State representatives.
Teoh was found dead at Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam, where the Selangor MACC headquarters is located, on July 16. His death has sparked an outcry and a coroner's inquest is currently being held to ascertain the cause of the death.
On Jan 5, police recorded a statement from Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, who allegedly made a statement calling on the police to stop investigations against the Penang Chief Minister. He was questioned for 50 minutes.
The Seri Kembangan assemblyman is being investigated under Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation, and also under the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998.
On Dec 31, Ean Yong had told reporters that the police investigations were politically motivated to prevent the truth about Teoh’s death from coming out. - malaymail
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