As expected, police today recorded a statement from Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang in relation to an article he wrote on 16 July titled ‘Malaysians will not rest until justice is done for the killing of Teoh Beng Hock’.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Wan Tiew Kwang from the Shah Alam district Police Station interviewed Lim at the DAP Headquarters in Jalan Yew at 10.45 am this morning.
Present also with Lim was his lawyer, Gobind Singh Deo who is also MP for Puchong.
On 21 July, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar had declared that the Gelang Patah MP would be investigated under the 1948 Sedition Act for his article about the death of Teoh Beng Hock.
The article highlighted the unfairness of Teoh Beng Hock’s death while under the custody of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commision (MACC) officials and Lim demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice. The article also questioned RCI reports and the responsibility of the SPRM in allowing a cover up of Teoh’s death.
The IGP said that Lim was trying to influence the public that Teoh was murdered.
In a statement on 22 July, Lim challenged the IGP to point at the part of his article which allegedly contained seditious remarks.
“After Karpal’s sedition conviction, IGP Khalid wants my “scalp”, knock me out of Parliament and even jailed for sedition?” Lim said, referring to Karpal’s conviction following the late MP’s comments on the 2009 Perak constitutional crisis.
Responding to Khalid’s threat to probe the Gelang Patah MP under the Sedition Act, Lim had urged Khalid to reread the RCI report on the incident; saying that it shouted “manslaughter”.
“The TBH [Teoh Beng Hock] RCI found that MACC officers had acted with impunity in utter disregard of the law, resulting in TBH’s death, and then conspired to cover up the truth and commit the crime of perjury at the RCI public hearing with false evidence.”
“Can Khalid explain why the police had not launched investigations into the MACC officers implicated in TBH’s death, whether under sections 304 and 304A of the Penal Code, namely for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and for causing the death of TBH by negligence, respectively, or even under Section 302 for murder?” Lim asked. -TheRocket
