IGP: We're 'just monitoring' Indira's ex-husband

Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar has denied that police will arrest Indira Ghandi ex-husband for refusing a court order to return their child to her.

Instead, he said, Perak police are only searching for Riduan Abdullah @ S Pathmanathan to "monitor" him and "ensure the child is safe".

The IGP said police are not budging from its position not to enforce either the civil or syariah court order, which sided with Indira's ex-husband Riduan Abdullah, Bernama reports.

This follow's Malaysiakini's report quoting Perak police chief Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani (left) that it the state police is searching for Riduan @ S Pathmanathan following an order by the IGP.

He also said that police will take the same position in the custody battle between S Deepa and Izwan Abdullah @ N Viran, who snatched their son.

"The fact for the Perak and Negri Sembilan cases are the same. We first received a syariah court order instructing police to place the children with the father.

"Then we got a civil court order to place the children with the mother. So you see the conflict between the two court orders, which place the police in a dillemma over which order to enforce," he was quoted as saying in Seremban.

"So we will not be enforcing either of the court orders. That is our stand."

'Court will decide if I'm in contempt'

He also said that Article 121(1A) of the federal constitution places the syariah and civil courts at the same level.

Article 121 (1A) state that the civil court has no jurisdiction on matters under the jurisdiction of the syariah court.

Asked if his position means he is committing contempt of court, Khalid reportedly said it is up to the courts to decide on that.

He also urged online news portals to report the situation clearly to show that how the police are trapped between court orders.

Last month, the Court of Appeal rejected Izwan's application to stay the Seremban High Court's decision to award custody of their two children to Deepa.

The Ipoh High Court, meanwhile, found Riduan (above) in contempt for failure to return their youngest child to Indira, following a court order which awarded custody of their three children to Indira.

Malaysia is becoming so hateful; that is true. But I am not yet ready to hate it. Are you?

MALAYSIA is turning into a hateful country

Hate; it is such an ugly word. Yet I can’t think of anything else to describe what is happening here, the land where I am to spill my blood.

But then, why should I care? I am after all an intruder and immigrant.

Yes, I realise that when the racists speak about intruders and immigrants, they mean non-Malay intruders and immigrants; this despite the fact that many so-called Malays are actually of foreign origin. But I am not a hypocrite like them.

I know my roots and they spread to Yemen, to Medan, to Singapore. I wasn’t even born here. Yet I believe that I have as much right to be here as anyone else and my fellow Malaysians have just as much right as me.

And still the question remains: why should I care?

I don’t have the answer to that question because I am not a very philosophical man. Yet I know this; I have no desire to live in the Yemen, or Medan or Singapore.

And as much as I loved my significant time in England, I always knew that I would come home. And home is here, Malaysia.

Forgive the overly sentimental tangent this article is taking, but I am trying to make sense of my world as I write. It is hard to be purely analytical when one’s home is being slowly destroyed by the bigoted, small-minded, cruel and vicious.

This place is my home because I grew up here. My memories and therefore my identity are tied up to this place.

My tastes, my relationships, my way of thinking, in short everything that makes me the individual that I am, are due to this place.

But what kind of place is it now? It looks to me like the kind of place where the vicious can threaten to behead people, where those who are meant to be the final arbiters are unwilling or incapable of making judgments based on the principles they have sworn to uphold.

It is a place where cowardly leaders think only of their votes and not of making a stand against vile people and their vile deeds.

There is so much going on which is going to affect our basic needs of hearth and security. While the wheels of capitalism turn, we the ordinary folk are going to find it harder and harder to just make ends meet.

Yet we allow thugs to set the agenda. We allow non-issues to become national debating points. We allow the vicious to go on screaming malicious words with God on their lips and hatred in their hearts.

All this when we are living in a country with so much potential and wealth. If we can ensure that the truly needy, regardless of their creed or colour are protected and helped; if we can move our education system towards one where we produce thinking people and not well-educated automatons; if we can create a government in all its guises which is dedicated to honesty and the rule of law.

If we can do all these things, then the future will be more secure for all of us. It is there, within reach.

Instead there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel and all I see is a darkness populated by the shrill screeching of the hatemongers.

It does not need to be like this. If the face of this country is as twisted and ugly to you as it is to me, we can still do something.

We can challenge our elected representatives into a corner. Force them to tell us where they stand.

We can support the downtrodden. We can gather together in huge numbers to make a stand not for any political reason, but to show the bigots that they are not the only ones in this land and that their cruel philosophies are not welcome.

We can think for ourselves and not simply allow those with so-called authority to dictate our thoughts for us. We can be fearless in deed, words and thoughts to uphold the values that surely any country needs to hang on to – fairness, compassion, kindness, freedom and justice.

This country is becoming so hateful; that is true. But I am not yet ready to hate it. Are you?

> Azmi Sharom lectures environmental and human rights law in a public university. He can be reached at azmisharom@yahoo.co.uk. The views expressed here are entirely his own. Via The Star

Thousands of wild birds imprisoned in shoplots

 

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The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?” - Jeremy Bentham.

Human are causing unnecessary trouble and distress towards animals which were created in this world. We do not have any reason for causing misery to the creatures which can’t express their feelings. We are the weak and cowardly creatures in this earth by troubling other living beings. For that reason the entire human race is suffering and fighting against each other. Karma will take revenge.

Recently, while I was teaching my brother how to drive a car, we went to a residential area where it was very quiet. That was my first time to enter that place. It was called Taman Jayamas phase 1, Jalan Tun Dr Ismail, Seremban. Negri Sembilan. When I passed by a shoplot, I heard terrific noises from birds which seemed like they were crying. It was a heartbreaking sound.

I do not have any idea or clue about the whole row of shoplots. I went to the second row where terrace houses were built, and I asked a resident, “Why are there a lot of birds sounds from the building?” According to him, a man who is allegedly the owner of the project has approximately thousands of birds in a shop. That means more than 10 shophouses have more than 500,000 birds caged or imprisoned in the shoplots.

The question is how did Majlis Perbandaran Seremban give a licence for such a cruel project? The worst part is there is no light in the building nor an electricity connection. I am not sure how often the birds were fed. There is no proper space for birds to get fresh air. There are a few holes in every building but they are not sufficient for them to get fresh air.

Besides this, the shoplots were plastered with cement because apparently they didn’t want the neighbours to listen to bird-crying and noises. Wild birds are not supposed to be kept in homes, what about thousands of them in a shoplot. Who is to be blamed?

In the first place who, how and why did Majlis Perbandaran Seremban approved a licence for rearing birds in a residential area? If this can happen, is it possible for others to rear chickens, goats, cows in the shop lots especially in residential areas? A big question mark arises here. It should not be possible for someone to do so even if he owns the shoplots.

Majlis Perbandaran Seremban is fully responsible for this animal cruelty. Malaysia should tighten animal cruelty laws. Last week I had highlighted dog killing by Majlis Perbandaran Johor Tengah, and this week bird-keeping within the jurisdiction of Majlis Perbandaran Seremban. Are we thinking that we are supreme towards all living beings which are created by the creator?

What I have mentioned above is just my own view. Now it is time for every Malaysian to watch and see the pictures which are linked above. Rational-thinking Malaysian should push the government to tighten animal cruelty laws. If the current government fails to listen to this request, I will highlight the case to international organisations.