Man claims he was shot by police

(The Star) - Mahendran underwent surgery at the hospital and upon being discharged, found out he is being investigated by the Sentul police for attempted murder and is currently on police bail.

A 24-year-old man has claimed that he was shot by four men who identified themselves as policemen when he refused to get out of his car.

S. Mahendran who lives in Sentul said the incident occurred at 5am on March 3 when he was leaving a restaurant in his car along Jalan Khalsa off Jalan Ipoh here.

“Three men in plainclothes and on motorcycles pulled up next to me at the traffic junction and identified themselves as policemen.

“They ordered me out of the car. I refused and instead asked them to show their police identity cards first,” he said during a press conference held with Suaram at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall.

Mahendran, who is unemployed, said he had been a victim of two robberies in 2012 and most recently in February this year and was afraid the men in plainclothes could be posing as bogus cops.

He drove to a police station in Jalan Kasipillay and the trio on motorcycles trailed him there. A fourth man claiming to be a policeman also asked him to get out of the car.

“I feared for my safety and decided to leave but as I was driving off, I knocked into one of the motorcycles belonging to the men. The next thing I heard was gun shots and I felt pain in my left thigh,” he said, adding that the group did not pursue him.

Mahendran called his father, who lives in Klang, and the father told him to get a friend to drive him to the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang.

Mahendran underwent surgery at the hospital and upon being discharged, found out he is being investigated by the Sentul police for attempted murder and is currently on police bail.

“I have lodged a police report on the matter and hope the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters or Bukit Aman would look into my case,” he said.

He added that he is astounded by the alleged policemen opening fire outside a police station and having the cheek to investigate him for attempted murder.

Sentul OCPD Asst Comm Zakaria Pagan confirmed the case and said police are investigating.