R.Sri Sanjeevan the crime watcher

KUALA LUMPUR:

Together with the former Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, the Malaysian Crime Watch Task Force or MyWatch chairman R.Sri Sanjeevan rose to fame with their crusade by highlighting crime cases.

MyWatch aims protect the people in Malaysia from crime and all forms of criminal harm.  It is an initiative to bust the trespassers and to bring the crime rate under control in this growing and rapidly changing environment.

Sanjeevan is no stranger to fighting against crime or highlighting injustice. Previously, Sanjeevan was the Aasthivaram Foundation Vice President and Negri Sembilan People’s Welfare Party (Kita) Chairman.

In the recent years, Sanjeevan has handled and highlighted a few cases which were reported by Free Malysian Today portal. Here are some of them:

• July 2013 - A former drug pusher claiming he paid between RM30,000 and RM50,000 a month to the police in Negeri Sembilan and Malacca for information on police stakeouts.

• July 2013 – Sanjeevan lodged a report at the Sepang police station claiming harassment by several individuals. He was also followed by a group of five men when he was having drink with his friend in LCCT.

• February 2013 - Workers at an illegal gambling outlet are being tipped off by policemen on impending raids.

• January 2013 - A policeman from the Jelebu police headquarters allegedly threatened to shoot Sanjeevan minutes after he informed Bukit Aman of illegal gambling outlets operating in the area.

• January 2013 - Alleged that the Royal Malaysian Police has been instructed not to engage with the NGO in any of its programmes.Two state police chiefs refused to attend programmes on crime prevention arranged by his NGO.

• January 2013 - Sanjeevan said that crimes such as vehicle theft, abduction and extortion were categorised under non index offences thus claiming gangsterism has prevalent.

• December 2012 – My Watch claimed that it has in its possession evidence that top police officers are involved in criminal activities and threatened to make public the information unless the Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar agrees to meet with the group so that an open, high-profile investigation can be carried out immediately.

• May 2012 - Puchong PKR chief S.Murali attacked by several people, believed to be members of MIC Youth outside the Prime Minister’s Office, where a PKR delegation had gathered to deliver a memorandum over the issue of stateless Indians in Malaysia.

• March 2012 - 13-year-old S.Sunther who was tortured by two policemen in Jempol. Sunther was arrested on Feb 26 on suspicion of stealing jewellery.

• December 2011 - Residents from the Seremban Jaya township have complained about the rising number of illegal gaming, illegal massage parlours offering sexual services outlets in residential areas which are causing social problems.

• April 2011 - S.Devan was handcuffed and beaten by several plainclothes individuals claiming to be policemen after they failed to locate a friend.  R.Sanjeevan called upon Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar to put an immediate end to such brutality.

IGP vows to probe Sanjeevan's rogue cop claim

Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar has pledged a thorough investigation into the shooting of anti-crime NGO MyWatch chairperson R Sri Sanjeevan, including his claim that rogue cops were out to get him.

"I assure the family and public that our investigations will be thorough and will look into all aspect including those alleged by SS (Sri Sanjeevan) earlier," Khalid said in a Twitter posting this morning.

In another tweet, Khalid also gave an assurance that Bukit Aman will monitor the investigations and the CID director will "personally supervise" investigations.

Allegations of errant cop involvement surfaced as Sanjeevan had foretold his fate in a tweet, just hours before he was shot.

Sanjeevan was shot at about 4.30pm in Jempol, Negri Sembilan. He was reported to be in stable but critical condition after undergoing surgery.
DAP: Cops should be vigilant

He rose to fame late last year when he organised a series of press conferences featuring former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan.

Among others, Musa had claimed that there are currently high-ranking police officials with underworld links.

Following this, Sanjeevan had received several death threats and was assaulted in Kuala Lumpur in April.
Meanwhile, DAP's Gobind Singh Deo urged the police to set up a special team to investigate the matter, to consist of persons unrelated to the complaints made by Sanjeevan in the past.

"The question is having been informed about the attempt on his life or harm upon him and his family and knowing that there were previous attempts on his life, did the police take any steps to protect him before he was shot?" Gobind, who is also Puchong MP, wrote in a press release.

Ex-IGP links Jempol shootings to expose on cops

The attempt to murder anti-crime NGO MyWatch chairperson R Sri Sanjeevan is likely linked to his recent exposé on police personnel with crime syndicates links, former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan said.

"I hope the police will do a thorough investigation to trace (the) suspect as he (Sanjeevan) had received several threats... (due to) his revelation on police involvement with activities of syndicated crime and illegal activities," he said on Twitter late Saturday night.

Sanjeevan, himself, appeared to have foretold his fate in a tweet hours before he was gunned down.

He also appeared to have tried to alert current Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar on the imminent threat.

"A cop told some syndicate fellow that he'll get them firearm(s) and told them to fire shots at my house to scare me or my family," he said, in the tweet, which tags both Khalid's and the official Royal Police Force's Twitter handles.

According to the Star, Sanjeevan was gunned down at about 4.30pm yesterday in Jempol, Negri Sembilan.

He is reportedly in stable but critical condition after undergoing surgery at the Kuala Pilah Hospital.

Shot in the chest

Astro Awani, meanwhile, reports that the 29-year-old was shot in a cold-blooded fashion by two motorcyclists while he was driving, at a junction near Taman Cempaka there.

"He was apparently smoking and has his windshield was down when two men on a red motorcycle came from behind.

"The pillion rider then took out a gun and shot at Sanjeevan. He was injured in his right chest by one bullet but it is unclear how many shots were fired," read the report.

It also quoted a source as saying that the pillion rider got off the motorcycle after the shots were fired, but the victim managed to drive off.

His friend, who was in the silver BMW with Sanjeevan took over the wheel several hundred meters later and rushed the victim to the hospital.

Sanjeevan had received death threats since last January and was assaulted in Kuala Lumpur in April.

He was accompanied by Musa, who is MyWatch's patron, when he lodged a police report on the assault.

Ominously, Sanjeevan then said that he had also received a call allegedly from a police officer from the Jempol police station, claiming that some gangs were ready to "kill" him.

7 killed in Florida hostage standoff

(CNN) -- A gunman killed six people overnight at a Florida apartment complex before police shot him dead in a shootout, authorities said early Saturday.

The man barricaded himself in an apartment in Hialeah, a Miami suburb, where he was holding a man and a woman hostage, city police spokesman Sgt. Eddie Rodriguez said.

Hialeah police received a call at 6:30 p.m. of a shooting.

When they arrived at the scene, they found two people dead from gunshot wounds and heard additional shots in the area, Rodriguez said.

After negotiations failed, a SWAT team entered the dwelling, rescued the hostages and killed the gunman, who fired on them, police said.

When officers went through the apartment complex, they found several bodies. One was across the street, and Rodriguez said that victim may have died from a stray bullet.

The victims are three women and three men, Rodriguez said.

Authorities believe that while the gunman was not a resident of that apartment complex, his mother is a tenant, said Carl Zogby of the Hialeah Police Department.

Islamic attitude towards infidel kids is epitomic. Better generate right aversion to Islam in your children to resist it.

Islamic attitude towards infidel kids is epitomic in case of conspiratory conversion of non Muslims or to confine them into school bathroom at the time of break while they take food in the month of Ramadan. Islam does not consider and care ignorant children, if they don’t belong to Muslim community. The children are just infidel according to Islamic belief. So covert them as Muslim without considering the children’s universal attitude of love and to get love. Better generate right aversion to Islam in your children to resist it. Islam is dangerous. If the coming generation is not quite aware about the barbaric Islam like some examples below, Islam will capture them with all evils towards a doom. [Editor- Hindu Existence].

Malaysia court quashes Hindu kids’ conversion to Islam

KUALA LUMPUR  | AFP | 25  July 2013 ::   A Malaysian court on Thursday ruled against the 2009 conversion of three Hindu children to Islam without their mother’s knowledge, a verdict welcomed by non-Muslim groups.

A high court in the northern city of Ipoh declared the conversion of Indira Gandhi’s children, now aged five, 15 and 16, by their father to be unconstitutional, said Indira’s lawyer K. Shanmuga.

The judge ruled that the father had failed to take the mother and children to Islamic authorities for their consent to the conversion, in a rare verdict in the multiracial but Muslim-majority nation, Shanmuga said.

“It is the first time ever that a child’s conversion certificate has been quashed by a high court,” he told AFP.

Indira, a kindergarten teacher in her late 30s, faced losing custody of her children after her husband converted himself and them without her knowledge.

Under Malaysian sharia law, which governs civil matters for Muslims, a non-Muslim parent cannot share custody of converted children.

Indira, a Hindu, got a 2010 high court verdict to award her custody. But her husband went into hiding with their youngest daughter and the conversion remained in dispute.

Earlier this month Malaysia withdrew an Islamic law which allows one parent to give consent for a child’s conversion, after an outcry.

Opponents said it discriminated against minorities despite government promises to address their grievances.

Religious groups welcomed Thursday’s verdict.

“We are very happy about that decision. But it must be accepted by all the Islamic and other government agencies,” said Mohan Shan, an official with the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism.

Conversions of children and “body-snatching” cases — in which Islamic authorities tussle with families over the remains of people whose religion is disputed — have previously raised tensions.

More than 60 percent of Malaysia’s 28 million people are Muslim ethnic Malays, but it also has sizeable Chinese and Indian minorities who are non-Muslims. [eFox News].

Malaysia court dismisses conversion of three Hindu children to Islam

Kuala Lumpur | PTI | 25 July 2013 :: In a landmark ruling, a Malaysian court on Thursday dismissed the 2009 conversion of three Hindu children to Islam without their mother’s consent. Judicial Commissioner Lee Swee Seng at a Hight Court in the northern city of Ipoh ruled the certificates of conversion null and void because it was unconstitutional, against the right of natural justice, and it was given without hearing the mother or children. He also said it was unlawful as Sharia law in Perak state itself says that the children must be present to utter the affirmation of faith. Read more here… [eNDTV].

Malaysia withdraws bill allowing unilateral conversion

Kuala Lumpur | PTI | 8 July 2013 :: Malaysia on Monday withdrew a controversial bill that allows one parent to give consent for the conversion of a child, following an outcry over two minor ethnic Indian Hindu children embracing Islam without their mother’s permission. The controversial Administration of the Religion of Islam (Federal Territories) Bill 2013 was withdrawn from parliament following a motion by Minister in the Prime Minister’s department Jamil Khir Baharom. Mr. Baharom moved the motion to withdraw the bill for its second third and fourth reading and from being debated on. The bill was tabled for the first reading in Parliament on June 26. On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had said the bill would be withdrawn until an agreement was reached with all stakeholders. He said the Cabinet decided to withdraw the bill from the current parliament meeting following concerns from various quarters, including the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional’s component party members. The component party include Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC). Read more here… [eThe Hindu].

Non-Muslim school children forced to eat in bathroom during Ramazan

Kuala Lumpur | HJS | 23 July 2013 :: The report gives us an account  of a Muslim dominated school in Malaysia where children eating in the bathroom are taken from Facebook and they were posted by a mother whose kids go to the same school. As the mother claims, all these school children are non-Muslims and they are forced to eat during breaks in bathroom during the month of Ramazan (the Islamic month of both fasting and feasting ). Read more here… [eHJS].

 

 

Pakistan bomb attacks kill at least 57 and injure many more

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Two bomb attacks in a busy marketplace in north-west Pakistan have killed 57 people and injured 167, local officials said on Saturday.

The authorities believe the bomb blasts in Parachinar, in the predominantly Shia Kurram tribal area, on Friday night were a co-ordinated sectarian attack by Sunni militants.

Hospital official Shabir Hussain said almost all the dead and wounded were Shias.

Shia leader Hamid Ali said the market was full of Shias, who were buying items for their evening meal that breaks the daytime fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

"We demand protection. We request the government to take action against those who routinely kill our people," he told Associated Press.

Another doctor, Zahid Hussain, earlier said the dead bodies quickly overwhelmed Parachinar's main hospital, where a large numbers of people sought medical attention after the blasts. "We have no place to keep the wounded," he said on Friday night. "Many of them are lying on the hospital floor and on the lawn."

The apparently co-ordinated bombs hit the main bazaar as people were doing their evening shopping before the iftar meal, police spokesman Fazal Naeem Khan said. One bomb was believed to have been planted on a motorcycle, he said.

The second bomb detonated about four minutes after the first, about 400 yards away from the initial blast, according to government official Javed Ali.

One man, Said Hussain, who was in the area where the second blast struck, reported seeing a teenage boy shout: "God is great!" just moments before the explosion.

Pakistan is a majority Sunni Muslim state, but around 15% percent of the population are Shias. Most Sunnis and Shias live together peacefully in Pakistan, though tensions have existed for decades.

Meanwhile, assailants attacked a Pakistani border guard post near the south-western town of Sunsater, near Iran, early on Saturday, killing seven security personnel and wounding as many others, senior government officer Akbar Hussain Durrani said.

Putrajaya to defend Seri Pristana headmaster if not guilty, says Ku Nan

 
Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor mingling with residents during the breaking of fast organised by the ministry today. The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim

Putrajaya will defend Mohd Nasir Mohd Noor, who moved his non-Muslim pupils to the school’s shower room for recess, if the SK Seri Pristana headmaster is not guilty of wrongdoing, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said tonight.

The Federal Territories Minister blamed the opposition for distorting the SK Seri Pristana canteen issue by putting the blame on the school authorities and the education ministry.

“The headmaster wants to protect the students from being exposed to the sun, so he purposely put the students in the shower room,” Tengku Adnan told a press conference after breaking fast in Kuala Lumpur today.

The Sungai Buloh primary school had recently come under fire when a picture of non-Muslim students eating in a shower room went viral on Facebook.

The newly-appointed Federal Territories Umno liaison chief said he will work hard to improve the performance of Umno and Barisan National (BN) in Kepong to restore the glory of the party's leadership.

He said he would be helping the party to regain the lost seats from the opposition, namely Segambut, Bandar Tun Razak, Wangsa Maju and Lembah Pantai.

He added that Umno should find out the cause of BN's defeat in these seats in the last general election and understand the needs of the people.

"It is time for the party to talk with the public in order to win back the people's trust.

"It does not matter which race, we should go house to house, and to every village so that they will continue to support us," he said.

During the breaking-of-fast at the Amaniah mosque in Kepong, Tengku Adnan made a contribution of RM10,000 to the mosque for the upgrading of its facilities and RM100 along with a pair of clothes to married couples in the low-income group in the area. - July 27, 2013.

MyWatch Sanjeevan shot; critical in hospital

Anti-crime NGO MyWatch chief R Sri Sanjeevan is said to be in a critical but stable condition at the Kuala Pilah Hospital.

PETALING JAYA: MyWatch chairman R Sri Sanjeevan was shot by unknown gunmen in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan at about 4.30pm today.

His condition is reported to be critical but stable. Sanjeevan is now warded at the Kuala Pilah Hospital.

Speaking to FMT, MIC central working committee member G Kumar Aamaan confirmed the matter, saying he received the news from Sanjeevan’s father about three hours ago.

Elaborating on the incident, Kumar said that Sanjeevan and his friend B Ramesh, were driving on his car in Bahau town, and was shot at when the vehicle stopped at a traffic light.

“It seems that two unknown men arrived on motorcycle, stopped near Sanjeevan’s car, and fired a shot on his chest.

“But Sanjeevan somehow managed to drive himself from the place and went straight to Jempol Hospital,” said the MIC leader, who is also Sanjeevan’s colleague in another NGO, Aastivaram Foundation.

MyWatch advisor S Gobi Krishnan also confirmed the matter, saying Sanjeevan is now warded at the Kuala Pilah Hospital.

“He was initially receiving treatment at the Jempol Hospital before being transfered to Kuala Pilah,” he said.

FMT was unable to get any comment from Negeri Sembilan CID chief Hamdan Majid.

Sanjeevan has been in the news recently for exposing corruption in the police force. Previously he had informed FMT that he had received many death threats.

Rights of non-converted spouse must be upheld

Many objected strongly when the government tabled the Administration of the Religion of Islam (Federal Territories) Bill 2013 late last month.

The Bill allowed for the unilateral conversion to Islam of a child by one parent, presumably after that parent converts himself or herself to Islam.

We are glad that these strong objections have caused the Bill to be withdrawn, for now. Many have emphasised too that withdrawing the bill does not address the problem as existing state religious laws and the Bahasa Malaysia version of the federal constitution must be amended to ensure that the consent of both parents is necessary for a child’s conversion.

But unilateral conversion of the child is not the only issue to worry about when one spouse converts to Islam. 

In Women's Aid Organisation's (AO) direct experience with women whose husbands convert opportunistically, other rights of the non-converted women have been eroded.

Right to inherit from a family member who converts to Islam

If one spouse converts to Islam, the non-converted spouse and other non-Muslim next-of-kin are not entitled to inherit from the converted spouse.

The Distribution Act 1958 does not apply to the estate of any person professing Islam, and non-Muslims are generally not allowed to inherit under faraid principles of asset distribution.

Non-Muslim family members can only receive at most one-third of the converted person’s estate, if the converted person chooses to bequeath anything at all.

The Distribution Act 1958 should be amended to safeguard the right of the deceased’s non-Muslim next-of-kin to inherit.

Right to have all issues relating to a civil law marriage settled according to civil laws and adjudicated only in civil courts

Shamala Sathiyaseelan is a Hindu mother whose husband converted to Islam and converted their two infant children without her knowledge or consent.

She went to the High Court to seek redress, but the Court ruled that since the children were now Muslims, the Syariah Court was the only qualified forum to determine their religious status.

As Shamala was not Muslim, she could not appear in the Syariah Court either, and she was left with no avenue to seek justice.

The Law Reform (Marriage And Divorce) Act 1976 should be amended to ensure that all issues relating to a civil law marriage are settled according to civil laws and adjudicated only in civil courts.

A marriage contract between two non-Muslims is made under civil law. It is therefore unjust for a non-Muslim spouse to unexpectedly find herself or himself subject to laws other than those she or he had agreed to at the time of marriage.

Right to be informed of a spouse’s conversion to Islam

Everyone has a right to embrace a religion of their choice, but there is no legal requirement for a spouse who converts to Islam to inform his or her family members of the conversion.

This is key as the conversion has legal consequences on the marriage and the rights of the non-converted family members.

Before registering a conversion, religious authorities should ensure that the spouse and other family members have been notified through a written acknowledgment.

Irresponsible spouses have been allowed to misuse religion to shirk their moral and legal obligations.

As a community of shared values we must not allow the unconverted spouse and other family members to face the injustices caused by this misuse.

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WOMEN’S AID ORGANISATION’s (WAO) mission is to promote and create respect, protection and fulfilment of equal rights for women. Arguments in the letter were adopted from the memorandum 'Safeguard Rights of Wives and Children upon Conversion of Husbands to Islam,' published by the Joint Action Group For Gender Equality (JAG) on Feb 5, 2007.

MIC: Indian matriculation seats not met for two years

The allocation of 1,500 matriculation seats for Indian students for 2012 and 2013 that the government had promised was never met, said MIC treasurer-general Jaspal Singh.

Jaspal said that only 1,142 places were given to Indian students in 2013 for matriculation, still falling way below the 1,500 mark promised by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak last March year.

"The 1,500 number was not met last year. We were given the excuse that it was the first year of the programme. This year, this number was again not met!" said Jaspal in a statement today.

"The devil is in the details and the Education Ministry would fall down on what seemed to be the most simplest of implementations," he added.

Jaspal proposed that the quota system be reintroduced for intake in public universities, saying that the current system was not transparent.

"This is because the current ill-named system of meritocracy is un-transparent. It is broke. No one understands how places are allocated under it," he added.

He said that only 442 of the 51,673 students who sat for the STPM examinations obtained a 4.0 CGPA and that special effort must be put in to retain these students in Malaysia, rather than to waste money luring them back later.

"What then is the use of Talent Corp spending RM65 million to bring back talented Malaysians? We must resolve this issue," he said.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Education Minister, earlier claimed in Parliament that the government never cheated the people and that the 1,500 matriculation seats for Indian students were fulfilled last year and this year.

He said this in a parliamentary reply to a question posted by DAP's Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran on June 27.

Hindraf to protest if Uthaya is not taken to hospital

The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has threatened to hold a protest in front of the Kajang prison if its leader P Uthayakumar, who has been imprisoned, is not taken for his medical appointment on Aug 1.

More than 500 people, led by Uthayakumar's wife S Indra Devi, may camp in front of the prison if the prison authorities do not comply, Hindraf secretary-general S Thiagarajan (seated, centre) told a press conference today.

The incarcerated leader has appointment with a neurosurgeon at Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) on that date for his prolapsed disc.

Uthayakumar has already missed a July 18 appointment at the same hospital as a result of his imprisonment last month.

He was on June 5 jailed for two-and-a-half years after being found guilty of making seditious statements in 2007.

Indra, who was also present, could not say how far she would go with her protests, but stressed that she would not give up until Uthayakumar is taken to the hospital for his treatment.

Threat of being put in 'a dark room'

"I'm not asking them to release him. I'm just asking them to give him the medical attention due to him," Indra said, breaking out in tears.

She said she dreaded the possibility of Uthayakumar being put in a "dark room" and or that his right to make weekly telephone calls be taken away.
"I get to see him once a month and I get to speak to him once a week. I hope they don't take those privileges away," Indra (left) added.

Uthayakumar has allegedly been threatened by prison authorities that he will be put in a dark room if he continues spilling the beans on the kind of treatment he has been getting in prison.

The Hindraf leader has reportedly has been complaining about back pains as a result a prolapsed disc and is also suffering a swollen leg. He is seeking proper treatment, but the prison doctor had told Uthayakumar that he has "no power" to refer him to a hospital.

Indra said the prison authorities were still giving him painkillers for his back pain, but she had asked him to stop taking the medication as it could aggravate his diabetes.

"I don't want my husband to have to go through dialysis while in prison," she said.

She also complained that Uthayakumar was still being made to use a dipper for both toiletry and food purposes.

She said that the dipper, which in the prison cell, is used for his toiletry purposes but is also used to serve him with porridge three times a week.

"Diabetes patients are very prone to getting infection. This is not hygienic," she said.

Indra also said that though she was allowed to speak to Uthayakumar 15 minutes every Wednesday morning, the time was reduced to 10 minutes the last time he called.

MIC mulls exposing those harassing whistleblower mum

MIC strategy director S Vell Paari is planning to reveal the phone numbers of those who have threatened the ‘shower room canteen' whistleblower.

He said he was thinking of publishing the numbers in his daily Tamil Nesan "so that the individuals responsible for this cowardly act will get a taste of their own medicine".

According to Vell Paari, he had spoken to the whistleblower, Guneswari Kelly - the mother of a pupil at SK Seri Pristana primary school in Sungai Buloh.

"I have told her to forward me the numbers of those who threatened her and I will deal with them.

"Furthermore, I also told her that if her daughter continues to be harassed by the teachers, then I will go to the school and speak to the teachers myself, " he added.

Photos posted on FB

Vell Paari expressed regret that such incidents of perceived discrimination were taking place in the school.

"It is sad... teachers are supposed to look after the pupils. The Education Ministry and the police must look into Guneswari's complaints," he said.

Guneswari, who uploaded photographs of  non-Muslim pupils of SK Seri Pristana having their recess meals in the shower room, yesterday complained of receiving threatening phone calls.

The photographs posted on her Facebook - which have since been deactivated - ignited a firestorm of protests.

The Education Ministry and school authorities have denied that the issue was related to race or religion.

It was reported that the headmaster - who has since been ordered to go on leave - suggested the use of the shower room since the canteen was under renovation.