Lawyer lodges report against client over shooting threat

The Star 
by WANI MUTHIAH

PETALING JAYA: A lawyer has lodged a police report against one of her clients whom she claimed had threatened to shoot her for refusing to run an errand for him.

“He said he would find me and shoot me during a telephone conversation,” said N. Lalitha who had acted for the man in the purchase of a bungalow in Kuala Lumpur.

According to Lalitha, the man had entered a sale and purchase (S&P) agreement to acquire the bungalow for RM11.5mil and had agreed to pay a deposit of RM230,000.

“But the sale did not go through because the man was unable to make the deposit,” she added.

Lalitha said the houseowner then terminated the S&P agreement and the man sued the vendor for failing to honour the S&P agreement.

The court then ordered the man to make a RM20,000 payment as cost security pending his suit against the property owner by 4pm on Aug 23.

“He called me at about 2.30pm in my office in Rawang and asked me to collect the bank draft from him in Kuala Lumpur and then rush it to the house owner’s solicitor in Jalan Ipoh,” she said.

Lalitha said she had refused to do the man’s bidding and also reminded him that he still owed her legal fees for earlier transactions.

The man then lost his temper and threatened to shoot her.

“His brother also sent me an SMS asking for the return of the files and said that he was giving me a final warning,” said Lalitha who lodged a report at the Gombak police station on Wednesday.

Lalitha said she decided to lodge a police report because she was worried for her safety given the recent spate of shootings.

The man and his brother had faced multiple charges for cheating in 2010 and had been detained under the then Restricted Residence Act while awaiting the cases against them to be heard.

Meanwhile, a source from the Gombak district police headquarters confirmed Lalitha’s report.