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Here is “equal protection of law”? Is there a separate set of law for Zahid? MAT ZAIN IBRAHIM, former chief of the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department is correct to highlight the discrepancy on the issue of equal protection of law. Why should Zahid be let off the hook when the ex-IGP was charged under Section 323 of the Penal Code for assaulting Anwar back in 1997? If “the rule of law” still applies, Zahid does not have any immunity. He should face the law, the same set of law as every one of us is facing. Mat Zain Ibrahim. Many Malaysians will continue to wait for the AG to institute criminal charges against Mr Ahmed Zahid Hamidi ireespective of the latters Ministerial status or influence. The AG has a sworn responsibility to up hold the integrity of his position. He has to be mindful of the legacy he leaves behind for his family and nation. Can we have two sets of interpretation when it come to application of law. One for me, one for you.
When Businessman Amir Bazli Abdullah, victim of prejudiced police mindset fell in love with Datu Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s daughter all hell broke loose.
Zahid is no greater than any ordinary citizen in this country. The police should arrest him and the Att Gen. should charge him for causing grievous injuries to another. Najib should order that Zahid be charged or else this will become an issue in the up coming UMNO meeting in December 2013. Thanks a lot Sir Mr Mat Zain for the crisp clear explanation as to why Zahid should be committed to prison for his gangsterism behavior.
WE THE RAKYAT DEMAND TO KNOW WHY NO ACTION IS TAKEN AGAINST ZAHID FOR CAUSING GRIEVOUS HURT. Tell us why before we take to the street to demand action to be taken against Zahid. The Attorney-general, Gani, is the worst and most corrupt of all the AGs that ever served in the Malaysian attorney chambers. There is no excuse for not prosecuting Zahid even though he is the Home Minister. Is he telling us that there are two laws in this country? One for UMNO minister and one for ordinary citizens? Zahid should be prosecuted and serve his sentence if he is found guilty
Mat Zain is spot on and gives an excellent analogy by comparing the case with the Anwar Ibrahim assault case. To understand the lack of action in the Ahmad Zahid Hamidi case you have to compare it with the Altantuya case which showed that the BN controlled police, AG and the judiciary did not follow the correct procedures and the law, and went all out to protect the Umno minister who was strongly suspected of being involved in Altantuya’s murder. The harsh and sad reality is that under the Umno controlled government some Umno/BN politicians and their enforcement agency lackeys (e.g. the killers of Teo Beng Hock, Kugan, etc.) are above the law. They can commit any crime they like and no one can touch them.
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UMNO and BN politicians always get away from crime committed because the PDRM is behind them.Is this democray in Malaysia.My one encounter, if that is the appropriate word, with a policeman who had washed his hands in cold blood a dilemma has ebbed and flowed through the tides of Indian public opinion. Can outlaws be contained through the binding laws of a liberal democracy ? Should right to life, a fundamental tenet of our Constitution, be extended to police who kill innocents The trouble with sanction for murder is that it brutalizes and breeds rogues, particularly in our police, where any moral code has been weakened by corruption and arrogance.Police have jailed and killed innocents, coerced money out of helpless victims, confident that politicians, themselves largely corrupt, will never find the courage to confront them. The worry is that public opinion often condones “Dirty Harry” methods, in which a bullet takes precedence over due process.
“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”- Joseph Pulitzer
Truth, like pregnancy, cannot be hidden for long.The Home minister and the police have some real explaining to do here. You can’t have one standard of policing for one set of people and another one for the rest of us down trodden people. Do away with this elitist attitude or else… the special status which goes with that designation — refer to people holding political office, like MPs. Ministers UMNO looks after its own. Barring elected politicians, no police, from the highest to the lowest, can be sacked, even if they don’t work. They are assured of dearness allowance, and pensions, and a host of other benefits, including subsidised housing, which are not available to ‘ordinary’ citizens. No wonder that a job — or even a connection with someone who has a police job — is a coveted acquisition to boast about. But hold on a minute. In a democracy — in a government of the people, for the people and by the people — aren’t all government officials supposed to be public servants, and serve the people? So how come these supposed ‘servants’ of the people become the ‘masters’ of the people, and lord it over us? That’s the open secret of our ‘Official’dom: there’s nothing ‘Official’ about it.
Malaysia wants to be seen as a country practising democracy instead of dictatorship ( of which we got out of that shackles after Mahathir’s reign of power). We must prove to the world that JUSTICE will be seen and heard as the corner stone to the RULE OF LAW.
At this time in moment, it looks as if powerful political persons and or politically connected persons are above the RULE of LAW by FORCING the police force to act UNETHICALLY to the detriment of the citizens and nation.
This seems to be a clear-cut case of police siding with politicians if the businessman’s version is truthful.
The Royal Malaysia police must explain why no investigations todate.
Ahmad Zahid seems to be a bully and should be punished by the courts. But since he is Home Minister, do the courts dare to punish him? He should have been suspended from his duty immediately at the very least, till the court case is over.When, in 1993, it became clear that criminals owing allegiance to Dawood Ibrahim were involved in the horrific Mumbai blasts, the city’s police were offered freedom of the trigger. Citizens approved, as did the Congress, Shiv Sena, BJP and voters. Films glorified ‘encounter specialists’ . The syndrome is no longer as gory, but Chulbul Pandey still shoots first and whistles later. In 2008 Delhi police killed young men at Batla House. This year, on May 18, a young man in custody, Khalid Mujahid, died in “mysterious circumstances” while being taken to Barabanki jail by the UP police; 42 of them, including senior officers , are under investigation. For years in Hyderabad and Malegaon, “suspects” have been jailed for years without proof of complicity in any terrorist act. Congress or Samajwadi Party were in power in these states. And of course BJP ruled Gujarat when 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan was killed by the police. There is no standard response. Let alone outrage, there is hardly any rage about Delhi, UP, Andhra or Maharashtra. Most people have probably chosen their sides over Ishrat Jahan. The CBI’s chargesheet is enough for those who believe she is guiltless. Others stress the IB version that David Headley, convicted of terrorism, mentioned her name; or wonder what she was doing in the company of three men recognized, even by the CBI, as terrorists.
Only one thing is clear in this dust storm of fierce argument. We are not interested in truth. A complex reality has been distilled into campaign fodder in election season. Politics is the petrol that can turn such a fire into conflagration.
Businessman Amir Bazli Abdullah, victim of prejudiced police mindset the man suing Ahmad Zahid, laid out his version of the events after the alleged assault in 2006, to The Malaysian Insider: “I first lodged a report at the Dang Wangi police station the day after I was assaulted but was referred to Kajang police.
“I met a chief inspector where my statement was recorded over three days.”
Amir said he was then admitted to a hospital in Cheras but was later transferred to a hospital in Kelantan upon his request as his family was there.
Three police officers, he said, went to see him in Kelantan and they obtained his medical report.
“Some three to four months later, the chief inspector informed me that my case was classified ‘no further action’. I questioned him why this was happening as he had promised he would investigate fairly.
“The officer was apologetic and said his hands were tied as the instructions came from above.”
Amir said he then went to Bukit Aman to see the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan to ask why his case was closed without any action taken against Ahmad Zahid, who was then the deputy Information Minister.
Amir says the IGP refused to see him. “I was instead referred to the IGP’s secretary. And even she did not want to see me.”
Then on the advice of other police officers, Amir put his complaint on paper and personally sent it to the IGP’s office.
“All I got was an acknowledgement that the IGP’s office received my letter.”
Musa, in a reply via text message last night, said: “I do not recall him contacting me. To be fair, you should ask the OCPD of the area where the report was lodged and ask him what is the outcome of the report and investigation.”
When there was no further action from the police, Amir filed his suit in July 2007 against Ahmad Zahid, alleging that the then deputy minister punched him in the face on Jan 16, 2006, at the Country Heights Recreational Club in Kajang, Selangor.
In his statement of claim, Amir said Ahmad Zahid punched and threatened to kill him. He also claimed he was held in wrongful confinement at Ahmad Zahid’s home in Country Heights.
Amir is claiming for special, general and aggravated damages, costs and other relief deemed fit by the court.
Ahmad Zahid denied the allegations and claimed that Amir had concocted the whole story.
He filed a counter-claim against Amir, claiming to have suffered humiliation and emotional trauma as a result of the accusation.
Amir’s suit will be heard at the Shah Alam High court next month. – July 11, 2013.
First, the story:
When E Ilavarasan, a 19-year-old computer science student in western Tamil Nadu fell in love with 21-year-old N Divya last year, all hell broke loose. Ilavarasan was a dalit and Divya a Vanniyar, considered an “upper caste.”
The couple got married on October 8. The Pattali Makkal Katchi, the party of Vanniyars, found in it a bigger dalit conspiracy to take away Vanniyar girls and show the “upper caste” in bad light. The prudes of the community taunted Divya’s father Nagaraj for having brought shame to the community. Nagaraj committed suicide on November 7. Soon, violence engulfed the village; 300 dalit houses were set on fire.
After months of unrest, just when the couple thought they had weathered the caste storm, Divya’s mother, ostensibly influenced by Vanniyar politicians, filed a habeas corpus petition in the Madras high court on March 15, accusing Ilavarasan of detaining Divya. Following reports that her mother is ailing, Divya visited her in June and appeared in court to say that she would go with her mother for a few days. She said she was torn between her parents and Ilavarasan, but would sacrifice her love and stay with her mother.
All through the hearing of the case, when the caste masters were silently at work, Ilavarasan stood stoically outside the courtroom to catch a glimpse of his love. His request to have a word with her was turned down. Ilavarasan told his family and reporters that he was sure that Divya would one day come back to him. And then, on July 3, she said that she had no more “feelings” for her husband and she would not return to him. The next day, the young man was found dead by the railway tracks in Dharmapuri. Was it a suicide or a murder, we may soon know.
Now, the blame:
Some like writer Jnani, who wrote an open letter to Divya through a newspaper column on Friday, has blamed his own ilk – writers, intellectuals, journalists and other liberal thinkers – for not doing enough for the couple. I agree.
It’s easier to blame PMK’s repulsive caste politics, but there is no point in saying the demon is bad. It’s for the angels to guard society against the demons. It’s like blaming the criminals for the crime and sparing police who couldn’t prevent it. Tamil Nadu’s two big parties — the DMK and the AIADMK — grew big on the promise of preventing such evil. After all, they owe their birth and existence to the Self Respect Movement that eventually led to the Dravidian ideology.
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It has become a ritual for these parties to pay tributes to the father of the movement, Periyar Ramasamy, on his birth anniversary in September and death anniversary in December. They still organise ‘self respect marriages’ – where couples from different castes tie the knot – but the occasion is often used to deliver political speeches that blame rivals than rededicate themselves to the ideals of Periyar.
The old man with a flowing white beard took the atheist route to attack caste. It’s another matter that Periyar’s profession of atheism gave rise to a renewed sense of rural religiosity. I am not a fan of Periyar’s anti-Brahmin acts that included breaking Hindu idols in public in the early 1950s (which the Supreme Court in 1959 called ‘foolish behaviour’), but I salute his goal which was to create a casteless society.
This goal now lay in a shambles as politicians who claim Periyar’s legacy do nothing to stop the casteist juggernaut. The PMK sees dalit boys luring Vanniyar girls through such “curses of modernity” as mobile phones as the biggest threat to society. That such a party has alternately ridden on the shoulders of the DMK and the AIADMK to the corridors of power speaks volumes about how the Dravidian parties have rolled out the red carpet for casteism over the cemetery of Dravidianism.
And the solution:
It’s not easy to weed out casteism when politicians use it as a fertilizer for electoral fruits. A beginning, however, would be to own up episodes such as this as the failure of we the people who believe caste has no right to separate people who love each other. And let the demons party together. That way, at least we know there are no angels.
The rakyat knows that sc UMNO practices 2 sets of laws in Makaysia : one for sc UMNO one for the rest of the Rakyat.
The Home Minister is in a mess and is causing problems for the current government. He should resign and not make it difficult for the PM. The AG -please do your job courageously. You are answerable to God.
First World leaders versus Third World leaders. In the former, a leader will take responsibility for any mistake, whether failure by commission or omission. See how the chairman of a Korean airline apologised to the family members of the victims in the recent Boeing 777 mishap in US. See also how a Japanese politician is made to relinquish an official post if he is found uttering something which is misleading. On the other hand, somehow we do not see similar behaviour, a weakness in trait more to do with their lack of enlightenment (Popper, 1994). That explains why Malaysia is backward, and certain politicians have no class, dignity, and morality. The case in point is Zahid.
The current AG should resign if he is unwilling to charge Ahmad Zahid for assaulting people. There is no credibility as an impartial Government servant paid by our tax. The people has the right to see justice done and AG has failed many times over.Clear your own charges before acting like a minister, Zahid! You can go punching others everywhere and we cannot say anything against you tyrants?This generation who grew up and exercised all the powers under this undemocratic SACK ATTORNEY GENERAL NOW, HOME MINISTER NEXT WEEK ZAHID SET FOR COLLISION WITH NAJIB
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