ROSMAH-IN-GRAFFITI TRIAL SET FOR DECEMBER |
TARANI PALANI | JUL 13, 09 2:29PM |
THE POLICE WILL GIVE PRIORITY TO TO STAMPING OUT STREET CRIMES, IN LINE WITH THE GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO REDUCE CRIME AND CORRUPTION, INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE (IGP) TAN SRI MUSA HASSAN SAID.
DRASTIC MEASURES WOULD BE TAKEN TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM TO ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY, HE SAID.
“STREET CRIMES LIKE SNATCH THEFTS AND ROBBERIES HAVE A BIG IMPACT AS PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO GO OUTDOORS, THUS LIMITING THEIR MOVEMENTS.
“POLICE WANT TO REDUCE SUCH CRIMES WHICH HAVE BECOME RAMPANT,” HE SAID WHEN COMMENTING ON PRIME MINISTER DATUK SERI NAJIB TUN RAZAK’S STATEMENT THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD TAKE MEASURES TO CHECK CRIME.
MUSA SAID PDRM WOULD INCREASE MANPOWER AND BEAT BASE IN PUBLIC PLACES KNOWN TO BE RISKY DUE TO THE MANY CRIMES COMMITTED THERE.
SOME SERIOUSLY TROUBLING QUESTIONS IN MALAYSIA
KIM QUEK, ASIA SENTINEL
AN UNBELIEVABLE SPECTACLE TOOK PLACE IN THE BIZARRE MURDER TRIAL OF MONGOLIAN BEAUTY ALTANTUYA SHAARIBUU ON JUNE 29. KARPAL SINGH, THE LAWYER FOR THE VICTIM’S FAMILY, ATTEMPTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT A “GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL” ALLEGEDLY SEEN IN A PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE VICTIM. AT THAT POINT, BOTH THE PROSECUTOR AND THE DEFENSE LAWYER SPRANG TO THEIR FEET IN UNISON TO BLOCK THE QUESTION.
THIS RESULTED IN A SHOUTING MATCH, WITH SINGH ON ONE SIDE, THE VICTIM’S COUSIN ON THE STAND, AND THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE BLOCKING THE LINE OF QUESTIONING.
EARLIER, A SIMILAR DIVISION OF FORCES OCCURRED WHEN A MONGOLIAN WITNESS – A GIRLFRIEND OF THE VICTIM TOLD THE COURT THAT IMMIGRATION ENTRY COMPUTER RECORDS OF THE DECEASED AND HER TWO MONGOLIAN COMPANIONS, INCLUDING THE WITNESS, HAD BEEN MYSTERIOUSLY ERASED. WHEN SINGH ASKED THE COURT TO TAKE PROPER NOTE OF THIS HIGHLY IRREGULAR EVENT, BOTH THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE OBJECTED TO THE EVIDENCE AS IRRELEVANT, AND INSISTED THAT IT BE EXPUNGED.
NOW, ISN’T THAT A STRANGE PHENOMENON? A PROSECUTOR IS SUPPOSED TO SEEK JUSTICE FOR THE DECEASED VICTIM’S FAMILY AGAINST THE MURDERERS, SO HOW COME THE PROSECUTOR IS NOW GANGING UP WITH DEFENSE LAWYERS TO OPPOSE THE VICTIM’S FAMILY LAWYER? IS THIS A CASE OF PROSECUTOR VS. DEFENSE OR A CASE OF PROSECUTOR PLUS DEFENSE VS. VICTIM’S FAMILY? OBVIOUSLY, THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE SEEM TO HAVE PLENTY OF COMMON INTERESTS. WHAT ARE THOSE COMMON INTERESTS?
THE ANSWER MAY LIE IN THE IDENTITY OF THAT “GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL” THAT ALLEGEDLY APPEARED IN THE PHOTOGRAPH WITH ALTANTUYA THAT BOTH PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE TRIED SO HARD NOT TO ALLOW INTO COURT.
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