“Nothing serious” about Perak?

By Jacqueline Ann Surin (The Nut Graph)

ACCORDING to the Bar Council's Little Red Book about the police and citizen's rights, a person is under arrest under the following circumstances:

the police says "yes" to the question (asked politely if possible), "Am I under arrest?", or

does not allow you to leave or wants to take you to a police station, or

handcuffs you.

The Little Red Book derives its understanding of the rights of citizens and police action from nothing less than the Criminal Procedure Code.

What then does this mean about police action against Perak Speaker V Sivakumar? The video below aside, police held Sivakumar in a room in the state secretariat building for 90 minutes after they violently dragged him out of his chair. He was only allowed to leave the room after the state assembly was adjourned by hastily, and some might add illegally, installed Speaker Datuk S Ganesan from the Barisan Nasional (BN).

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