Nurul Izzah Anwar's lawyer says Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar is trying to justify her remand in the Jinjang lock-up. – The Malaysian Insider pic, March 17, 2015.
Nurul Izzah Anwar's lawyer has accused Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar of lying about her remand and urged him to quit.
R. Sivarasa said Khalid's statement last night, which attempted to explain the Lembah Pantai MP and PKR vice-president's arrest and overnight detention at the Jinjang police station, was malicious and illegal.
"The IGP attempts to justify her remand in the Jinjang lock-up by saying she will be released once her statement has been recorded.
"He attempts to give the impression that the police were unable to record her statement yesterday, hence necessitating the remand.
"That impression he attempts to give is false and totally unbecoming of the head of the police force," he said in a statement today.
Last night, Khalid said Nurul Izzah was arrested under the Sedition Act for her remarks at the rally, and not for a speech she had made in Parliament.
"Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar has been arrested under the Sedition Act to assist the police into the investigation of the #KitaLawan rally and for making contemptuous remarks that those in the judiciary system had sold their souls to the devil.
"She will be released once her statement has been recorded," he said in a two-paragraph statement posted on the police Facebook page.
Sivarasa had assisted Nurul Izzah when she went to the Dang Wangi police station yesterday at 2pm to have her statements recorded over her involvement in a #KitaLawan rally in Kuala Lumpur last month and her speech in Parliament last week that was allegedly seditious.
He said the arrangement was to have her first statement on the rally recorded by one Inspector Ridzuan and then her second regarding her speech recorded by one ASP Muniandy from Bukit Aman.
The arrangement was confirmed upon her arrival at Dang Wangi yesterday by Muniandy, he said.
By 3pm, Sivarasa said, Nurul Izzah had finished giving her first statement but instead of proceeding with the second, Muniandy informed them that he had received instructions to arrest her first.
"When I asked if she would be released after that, he refused to commit himself, saying he would have to get instructions from his superiors in Bukit Aman.
"We asked again if police would begin recording her statement when her arrest documentation was completed about 5pm, but Muniandy said his orders were to have her remanded at Jinjang and that the police would seek a further remand the next morning."
Sivarasa said Muniandy told them he had advised his superiors that Nurul Izzah's statement should be recorded and she should be released on police bail but they had ordered her remand to proceed.
"We pressed him to tell us who his superiors were. Although he did not name them, we were left with a clear impression these instructions were coming from the very top of the police force in Bukit Aman.
"Khalid is lying to the public about his instructions to his officers regarding the arrest of Nurul Izzah," he said. Sivarasa, who is the Subang MP, said Khalid should resign for his "shameless lies" to the public to attempt to justify his instructions to his officers to remand Nurul Izzah overnight in the Jinjang lock-up.
“Khalid should know that it was obvious to all and sundry that his detention of Nurul Izzah had Umno's political fingerprints all over it,” the PKR MP said.
"Unintelligent lies will not make that impression go away.”
- TMI
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