Saturday April 25, 2009
Trader reports seditious SMS, not realising it was sent by daughter
By MOHD FARHAAN SHAH
JOHOR BARU: Police arrested a teenager who forwarded an SMS to her father about a purported racial riot in Pontian.
The father, a businessman, had received the SMS on Monday while attending a Barisan Nasional event here, not knowing his daughter was the sender.
The next day, he lodged a report at the Pekan Nenas police station. It was only later, during a family meal, he realised it was the daughter who SMS-ed him.
On Wednesday, the father and daughter went to the police station to try retract the statement. The father told the police it was the daughter who sent him the SMS.
Police arrested the teenager under Section 4 (1)(b) of the Sedition Act 1948. Sources said the Form Four student was out on police bail.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, when met here yesterday, said police would take action against anyone involved in spreading rumours.
State police chief Deputy Commissioner Datuk Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said two suspects involved in the Pontian case, both of them 16, had been arrested.
On Monday, SMSes on the purported riot started circulating hours after a scuffle between a parent and a school teacher. Investigations showed that the father went to the school after his son complained that a Form Five student had slapped him on April 17.
The 36-year-old father, later arrested for trespassing, has since been charged in court.
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