Task force set up to probe FB posting insulting religion
(The Star) – Police have formed a special task force to investigate an online greeting which featured a picture of lemang, ketupat and a roasted pig head.
Johor police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff (pic) said the task force would be headed by Johor deputy CID Asst Comm Nor Azizan Anan.
“The incident is being investigated under Section 298 of the Penal Code for insulting a religion,” he told reporters at the launch of the Country Garden Danga Bay property development here yesterday.
He said the police had also recorded a statement from the alleged victim Alan Tang.
The greeting was posted on the Faceboook page of Tang, who is the assistant to Stulang assemblyman Andrew Chen Kah Eng.
Tang lodged the first police report over the greeting on Aug 8. He claimed that his Facebook page had been hacked into and made it look like he had posted the greeting.
The other three police reports were lodged by representatives from the state Umno Youth division, the Johor Baru district youth council and Pasir Gudang MCA division at the Seri Alam district police station in Pasir Gudang yesterday.
Senior Deputy Comm Mohd Mokhtar said the police had also recorded a statement from Tang.
