Four cops charged with causing hurt to businessman

Published: Tuesday January 11, 2011 MYT 4:14:00 PM
Four cops charged with causing hurt to businessman

PETALING JAYA: Four police constables claimed trial at a Magistrate's court here Tuesday to charges of causing hurt to businessman Chia Buang Hing.

The four constables charged were Mohd Azwan Hassan, Norzali Rosle, Ahmad Saifullah Osman and Alizulhafiz Abdul Ghafar.

Another policeman, Lans Kpl Mahadi Adam, also claimed trial in the same court to a charge of disobeying an order under the Police Act 1967, relating to the same incident.

No bail was imposed on all five men.

Chia, 34, had alleged that he was beaten up by policemen who also took RM13,000 of his money, after they stopped him at a roadblock, at 11pm on Dec 18 last year. He was travelling from his home in Tropicana to Kota Damansara.

He alleged that the policemen also ordered him to make a false report that he had been injured in a car accident and that, if he refused, they would plant a blood-stained machete or drugs in his car.

The businessman was remanded Dec 19-22 over two offences possession of drugs and machete and he was allowed to see his lawyer and his family while in custody.

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