Kit Siang suggests cops gunning for his ‘scalp’ with sedition probe

By admin-s On Jul 22, 2014

(TMI) – DAP’s Lim Kit Siang today alleged that the police were “targeting” him with a sedition investigation in a conspiracy to disqualify him as a federal lawmaker.

Police yesterday launched a probe on the Gelang Patah MP over a recent article on the unexplained death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock five years ago.

“The Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, probably hopes to get the second scalp of a DAP leader to be jailed and be disqualified and knocked out of Parliament for conviction of sedition,” the DAP parliamentary leader wrote in a statement today.

Lim cited the example of the late DAP chairman Karpal Singh, who would have been ejected from Parliament due to a sedition conviction and RM4,000 fine, were he still alive.

The police has also probed other DAP lawmakers in the past for sedition, including Seputeh MP Teresa Kok and Seri Delima assemblyman R. S. N. Rayer.

Lim today suggested double standards in the police’s enforcement of the Sedition Act 1948, claiming that they were “infamously passive and notoriously inactive when there had been a crescendo of seditious utterances and threats by extremist individuals and NGOs inciting racial and religious hatred”.

Yesterday, national news agency Bernama reported Khalid as saying that Lim will be probed for stating that those who were behind Teoh’s death had yet to be caught.

“His words in the article could be seditious, we will investigate Kit Siang under the Sedition Act,” the IGP told reporters yesterday.