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Thursday, 6 May 2010

Lawyers: Cops did not let us see Sultan and consort

The Star
KOTA BARU: Two lawyers who claim to represent the Sultan of Kelantan Sultan Ismail Petra Sultan Yahya Petra and Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis Tengku Hamid said they have been prevented by police from seeing their clients.

Datuk Mohd Haaziq Pillay and Gobind Singh Deo said they went to Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital in Kubang Kerian at about 4.35pm but were refused entry by the police.

The lawyers claimed they had reason to believe that both the Sultan and his consort were being held against their wishes.

Gobind said the meeting with their clients was crucial as they needed to get the facts from them to initiate legal proceedings.

“Details on what course of action to be taken would be revealed at a press conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.

“I do not understand why we were refused entry by the police because all we wanted to do was meet our clients,” he said yesterday.

Even policemen on duty seemed to be in the dark and were just following orders not to allow anyone to meet the royal couple unless there was a green light from certain quarters, Gobind claimed.

On Tuesday, the Sultan of Kelantan was prevented from leaving for Singapore to receive further medical treatment when the private aircraft that was supposed to take him was not given permission to land at Sultan Ismail Petra Airport here.

The Sultan, who was waiting at the airport together with Tengku Anis, Tengku Temeng­gong Tengku Muhammad Fakhry and personal doctors, was instead rerouted by the police to Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital.

It was not immediately known who had prevented the Sultan from leaving.

Gobind said police actions in preventing him to meet his client was in violation of the rights of an individual to defend himself.

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