SHAH ALAM: Karpal Singh, who is holding a watching brief for the family of slain Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu, has filed a notice of motion to recall private investigator P. Balasubramaniam to give evidence in the murder case.
“It’s an important application and we are asking that the judge invokes his powers under the Criminal Procedure Code Section 425 to recall Balasubramaniam and further examine him as a witness in view of his first Statutory Declaration (SD) made on July 1 where he made several significant declarations whereby naming people in high places,” he said.
The application, which was filed with the Registrar’s Office in the High Court here yesterday, also asked the court to summon Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Brickfields police's criminal division head DSP Musa Safri, CID chief DSP Idris Adul Karim and lawyer Dhiren Rene Norendra.
Karpal Singh said the application was made on the grounds of public interest as in the first SD, the former policeman linked Najib to the murdered Mongolian woman.
“On July 4, in a complete turnaround, Balasubramaniam filed another SD retracting the earlier sworn document. We have to get the court to re-evaluate this man’s evidence given in court in view of the conflicting SDs that throws a shadow of doubt over the evidence he gave in court as a key witness,” he added.
Karpal Singh said the court has to ascertain if the evidence given in the first SD was true and if it were, the court has a duty to summon Balasubramaniam and Najib to give evidence.
No offence in Hsien Loong’s remark, says Rais
SINGAPORE: Malaysia does not take offence to a comment made by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on the country’s political situation, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.
“I can only say that he is making the statement based on his observation from news items appearing in dailies and television,” said Dr Rais.
He said the statement was not “value judgement” in nature, adding that Lee’s comments and observations were sincere and Malaysians should not take them to heart.
Dr Rais was speaking to the media after attending the 41st Asean Ministerial Meeting (AMM) here yesterday.
Lee, in his speech at the opening of the AMM, said that besides cross-border issues, several countries were also preoccupied with pressing domestic problems.
“Malaysia and Thailand have held elections in the last year, but both are still managing unsettled political situations,” Lee had said.
On another matter, Rais said Malaysia wanted to propagate the inclusion of “Asian values” into the Asean human rights body instead of transporting the Western interpretation as a whole.“We have values that we can introduce as part of human rights, such as caring and respective for the elders and our way of musyawarah (consultation),” he said.
“It’s an important application and we are asking that the judge invokes his powers under the Criminal Procedure Code Section 425 to recall Balasubramaniam and further examine him as a witness in view of his first Statutory Declaration (SD) made on July 1 where he made several significant declarations whereby naming people in high places,” he said.
The application, which was filed with the Registrar’s Office in the High Court here yesterday, also asked the court to summon Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Brickfields police's criminal division head DSP Musa Safri, CID chief DSP Idris Adul Karim and lawyer Dhiren Rene Norendra.
Karpal Singh said the application was made on the grounds of public interest as in the first SD, the former policeman linked Najib to the murdered Mongolian woman.
“On July 4, in a complete turnaround, Balasubramaniam filed another SD retracting the earlier sworn document. We have to get the court to re-evaluate this man’s evidence given in court in view of the conflicting SDs that throws a shadow of doubt over the evidence he gave in court as a key witness,” he added.
Karpal Singh said the court has to ascertain if the evidence given in the first SD was true and if it were, the court has a duty to summon Balasubramaniam and Najib to give evidence.
No offence in Hsien Loong’s remark, says Rais
SINGAPORE: Malaysia does not take offence to a comment made by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on the country’s political situation, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.
“I can only say that he is making the statement based on his observation from news items appearing in dailies and television,” said Dr Rais.
He said the statement was not “value judgement” in nature, adding that Lee’s comments and observations were sincere and Malaysians should not take them to heart.
Dr Rais was speaking to the media after attending the 41st Asean Ministerial Meeting (AMM) here yesterday.
Lee, in his speech at the opening of the AMM, said that besides cross-border issues, several countries were also preoccupied with pressing domestic problems.
“Malaysia and Thailand have held elections in the last year, but both are still managing unsettled political situations,” Lee had said.
On another matter, Rais said Malaysia wanted to propagate the inclusion of “Asian values” into the Asean human rights body instead of transporting the Western interpretation as a whole.“We have values that we can introduce as part of human rights, such as caring and respective for the elders and our way of musyawarah (consultation),” he said.
