Wednesday July 30, 2008
Syed Hamid: Government won’t ask cops to drop case
KUALA LUMPUR: The Government will not ask the police to drop its investigations into the Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sodomy case just because a medical report said the complainant had not been sodomised, said Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
The Home Minister said the medical report from Hospital Pusrawi was “just one piece of evidence in a whole chain of evidences” at which the police were looking.
Addressing the media: Syed Hamid speaking after the opening of the International Conference on the Representation of Islam and Muslim in the Media organised by the International Islamic University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. With him is university rector Prof Datuk Syed Arabi Idid.“There is not even a charge preferred on him (Anwar) yet, so what are we to drop? We have to let the police complete their investigations, submit their investigating papers to the prosecutor and let the prosecutor decide if there is a case,” he told reporters here yesterday.
He said he was not surprised that Anwar had “gone to town” with the report, declaring himself innocent, as Anwar was adept at playing political games.
Denying that the Government was framing Anwar on allegations of sodomy, Syed Hamid said: “It would be very irrational for the Government to create a case of this nature, at this time, against such a person.”
He said the police were taking a long time to complete investigations as they had to be “meticulous and look at every aspect.”
“You should not blame the police for being very cautious and careful because this involves such a famous personality, especially since he (Anwar) is treated differently from ordinary mortals,” he added.
Last month, one of Anwar’s political volunteers, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, lodged a police report that Anwar had sodomised him.
The medical report was put on an online news portal, following which Anwar called a press conference yesterday and asked the police to drop its investigations as this proved that he was being framed.
Syed Hamid said it was unethical for the medical report to be leaked, as this was a breach of trust between the doctor and patient, and urged the medical fraternity to look into this.
He also denied the police was concealing this piece of evidence, adding that they were in no position to disclose the contents of any report.
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