‘Cops beat me up’
By A Aruna, The Star
PETALING JAYA: A businessman claimed that he was held and badly beaten up in different locations by policemen who also took RM13,000 of his money and threatened to ruin his business.
At one juncture during his alleged 24-hour nightmare, the policemen also ordered him to make a false report that he had been injured in a car accident and if he refused they threatened to plant a blood-stained parang or drugs in his car.
In pain: Chia claimed the alleged attacks took place at four different locations. – AZHAR MAHFOF / The Star. Businessman Chia Buang Hing, 34, claimed that a policeman from the narcotics division also threatened to “inject” him with drugs.
Chia alleged that the ordeal that he went through started at about 11pm on Dec 18, when he was stopped at a roadblock while travelling from his home in Tropicana to Kota Damansara.
He claimed a series of brutalities took place at the Dataran Sunway police car park and toilet, the Petaling Jaya police headquarters and outside the Petaling Jaya magistrate’s court.
“I was beaten up outside the court after I made a complain to the magistrate,” the businessman alleged.
Chia said the beatings caused his mouth to froth but a doctor at the Sungai Buloh Hospital merely confirmed that he had had some injuries after an X-ray and told him to go for a medical check-up.
He said he was then repeatedly hit by the policemen, who then handcuffed and dragged him into a police car amid his shouts for help.
He claimed that the policemen took his money and threw it all over the floor and in the toilet bowl. He was also hit by a hard object in the arms and kicked again.
Chia said that in the midst of being knocked about by the policemen, he made some fingerprint marks on the walls of the room and the toilet as evidence that he had been in police custody.
Chia, who was remanded for four days, was finally released on bail on Dec 22. He lodged a police report the next day.
Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng who helped him lodge the report said Chia owned three businesses in the city and had collected money from one of his shops before being stopped at the roadblock.
When contacted, Petaling Jaya district police chief ACP Arjunaidi Mohamed confirmed receiving the report and said investigations into the allegations by Chia were already underway.
