Cops holding Sanjeevan’s friend, but not for the murder attempt
Musliza Mustafa, TMI
The man who was in a car with MyWatch chairman S. Sanjeevan when the latter was shot last weekend is police custody on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Federal Narcotics department director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim (pic) said he has been detained under the Drug Preventive Act which allows police to hold him for 60 days pending further investigation.
He told The Malaysian Insider that police had been looking for the 35-year-old but he was off the police radar for quite a while.
“His arrest is in relation to drug trafficking and has nothing to do with the shooting of Sanjeevan,” said Noor Rashid.
The man was detained last Saturday, hours after Sanjeevan was shot at a junction near Taman Awana Indah in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan.
He was in Sanjeevan’s BMW when two men on a motorcycle rode up and the pillion rider fired a shot. Sanjeevan was hit in the rib cage but managed to speed away. The friend took over the wheel soon after and drove him to the Jempol Hospital where he first received treatment.
Sanjeevan is currently in an induced coma at Serdang Hospital. He will be operated on to remove the bullet once his condition improves.
