Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said he has told the state religious affairs department (Jais) to explain allegations that itwrongly arrested four persons for khalwat (close proximity) and hopes it has learnt a lesson from the incident.
“Arrest is something that is troublesome for those who are detained, so we have a very important responsibility (to ensure that) this process is done properly.
“If it is not, we will fix it. So I have told Jais to make a statement and, probably on Monday, Jais will make a statement on what had happened,” Khalid told a press conference in Shah Alam today.
Yesterday, three women and a man said they were moving house in Salak Tinggi past midnight on June 22, when two Jais officers arrested them for khalwat. The man was supposedly outside the house at the time while the women were inside.
They were later told to show up at the Syariah Court on Dec 17 with RM3,000 each, which is the maximum fine for khalwat, but it has not been made clear whether they would be charged or face trial.
“We want the police to take action against abuse of power and cancel the whole attempt to charge them. Jais should also apologise for shaming them,” the lawyer for the four, Latheefa Koya (above, left), said yesterday.
Khalid: State 'very transparent' on Skip
On another matter, Khalid insisted that the state had been “very transparent” on the Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya Expressway (Skip) plans, despite a DAP assemblyperson’s claim that it has been incorporated into local city plans without public consultation.
Skip is a 17.5-kilometre highway that is to be linked with the contentious Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex).
Khalid said the public hearings were held in 2012 and that these hearings were sometimes held for just a particular route or stretch of the highway.
“But if want to look at it, you would have to look at the overall routes. Therefore to end confusion, I have asked the Highway Authority of Malaysia (LLM) to explain it plans to build highways throughout Selangor for the next 20 years,” he said, adding that the state planning board would also be involved.
He said this in reference to the claim by Bukit Gasing assemblyperson Rajiv Rishyakaran (right) that Skip was not part of the 2012 public hearings on proposed changes to Selangor’s local city plans, but amendments have already been made to the Subang Jaya City Council plans.
“To the best of my knowledge, it was not part of the amendments presented during the public display in 2012,” the Malay Mail Online quoted Rajiv as saying today.
Rajiv was a Subang Jaya city councillor at that time and said he had attended the public hearings.
“Arrest is something that is troublesome for those who are detained, so we have a very important responsibility (to ensure that) this process is done properly.
“If it is not, we will fix it. So I have told Jais to make a statement and, probably on Monday, Jais will make a statement on what had happened,” Khalid told a press conference in Shah Alam today.
Yesterday, three women and a man said they were moving house in Salak Tinggi past midnight on June 22, when two Jais officers arrested them for khalwat. The man was supposedly outside the house at the time while the women were inside.
They were later told to show up at the Syariah Court on Dec 17 with RM3,000 each, which is the maximum fine for khalwat, but it has not been made clear whether they would be charged or face trial.“We want the police to take action against abuse of power and cancel the whole attempt to charge them. Jais should also apologise for shaming them,” the lawyer for the four, Latheefa Koya (above, left), said yesterday.
Khalid: State 'very transparent' on Skip
On another matter, Khalid insisted that the state had been “very transparent” on the Serdang-Kinrara-Putrajaya Expressway (Skip) plans, despite a DAP assemblyperson’s claim that it has been incorporated into local city plans without public consultation.
Skip is a 17.5-kilometre highway that is to be linked with the contentious Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (Kidex).
Khalid said the public hearings were held in 2012 and that these hearings were sometimes held for just a particular route or stretch of the highway.
“But if want to look at it, you would have to look at the overall routes. Therefore to end confusion, I have asked the Highway Authority of Malaysia (LLM) to explain it plans to build highways throughout Selangor for the next 20 years,” he said, adding that the state planning board would also be involved.
He said this in reference to the claim by Bukit Gasing assemblyperson Rajiv Rishyakaran (right) that Skip was not part of the 2012 public hearings on proposed changes to Selangor’s local city plans, but amendments have already been made to the Subang Jaya City Council plans.“To the best of my knowledge, it was not part of the amendments presented during the public display in 2012,” the Malay Mail Online quoted Rajiv as saying today.
Rajiv was a Subang Jaya city councillor at that time and said he had attended the public hearings.
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