KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim snubbed the police today by refusing to go in for questioning after citing harassment and intimidation by the authorities but the police are not retaliating. Instead, they are going to "follow due process of law".
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Datuk Mohd Bakri Zinin Bakri said: "We need the legal process to be obeyed. That's it for now. So, I ask the media not to make conjectures or speculation about this case. Our actions are based on the due process of law… we have to go one step (at a time). "
When asked about what steps these were, he refused to elaborate. "We've got two or three options," he said, adding "I cannot tell you what options we have but that is a process of law."
At the press conference in city police headquarters, he denied receiving any letter from Anwar or his counsel, Sankara Nair, in relation to the alleged police intimidation while serving the Opposition leader an order under the Criminal Procedure Code.
This morning, Sankara said he had written a letter to Bakri protesting the "uncalled for behaviour of the police".
"I didn't receive anything. As far as I am concerned, as director of CID, from 6 o' clock in the morning until now, I've not received anything, with all due respect," Bakri said.
Police want to question Anwar in connection with a sodomy complaint by former male aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan. This is the second sodomy claim Anwar is facing in a decade, coming at a time when he predicts he can capture Putrajaya by Sept 16.
source: The Malaysian Insider
15/07/08
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