Penang cops shoot dead factory worker who ran amok and killed colleague with parang

GEORGE TOWN, Sept 23 — The police this evening shot dead a factory worker who ran amok, causing the death of one colleague and seriously injuring another, in Bayan Lepas near here.

In the 5.45pm incident, the 25-year-old man is believed to have used a parang to harm a female supervisor, aged 47, and a male security manager at the factory, with the supervisor succumbing to serious injuries, particularly head wounds, while receiving treatment at a hospital.

The 53-year-old manager is reported to be stable and receiving treatment at Hospital Pulau Pinang.

According to Barat Daya district police chief Supt AA Anbalagan, the man who had worked as a quality assistant for two years at the factory, was believed to have suffered from depression for several months, and had been absent from work for a week but suddenly turned up for work today having already submitted a letter of resignation effective at the end of this month.

Anbalagan said policemen who had arrived at the scene, had told the man to give himself up but he instead attacked them with two ‘parang’ prompting the officers to shoot in self-defence.


The parang, as well as a knife were seized by the police who are also investigating the dead man’s motives. — Bernama

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Another four shot dead

Freemalaysiatoday

In a separate incident, Noor Azam said the police took down another group of robbers today, with four men killed in a shootout.

He said that when a team approached a Mercedes Benz parked at the basement of SkyPark in Cyberjaya, a man in another car parked nearby ran out and tried to attack the officers with a machete.

He said the officers heard several gunshots coming from the Mercedes at the same time, which led to them firing back.

The Mercedes was said to have been stolen in a separate incident earlier, where a family of five were robbed by four masked men.

Three of the deceased have been identified as Sree Tharan Sreekamlan, 35, Balakrishnan Ramamadram, 45, and Danes Manivanan, 28.

Sree Tharan and Balakrishnan had 35 and 16 records for crimes, respectively, involving robberies, break-ins, vehicle thefts and drugs, while Manivanan had one record.

The fourth man has not been identified yet.

Police recovered a revolver, a pistol, several machetes, ski masks and foreign and local currencies.

Show us the video, cops tell families of shot trio

Free Malaysia Today

SEPANG: The police have called on the families of the trio killed in the Batu Arang shootout to come forward with a CCTV video clip purportedly showing a missing woman with the men just hours before the fatal shooting.

Selangor police chief Noor Azam Jamaluddin said the families should hand the video to the police to assist investigations as they also want to solve the mystery surrounding the missing woman.

The footage, released by lawyer P Uthayakumar today, shows a woman resembling Moganambal Govindasamy leaving an elevator at The Henge condominium in Kepong at 10.33pm on Sept 13, hours before the shootout, accompanied by her husband V Janarthanan and two other men.

Uthayakumar said the video is proof that Moganambal had been with the three men just hours before they were killed.

Noor Azam also said not all police cars are fitted with dashboard cameras, after the families urged the police to release the dash cam footage of the police car involved in the shootout.

“As far as I know, only highway patrol cars are fitted with dash cams,” he said at a press conference at the Sepang district police headquarters.

The shootout on Sept 14 occurred when a police patrol ordered a car carrying the three men – Sri Lankan national and British permanent resident Janarthanan, his brother-in-law Thavaselvan and Maghendran Santhirasegaran – to pull over at Bandar Country Homes.

Police said when the men refused, a 7km chase ensued and the men opened fire on the officers, who returned fire.

They said Thavaselvan and Maghendran were wanted members of the 08 gang in Rawang, while Janarthanan had overstayed his visa.

Uthayakumar, who is representing the families of the deceased, said they were demanding answers as to why none of the gunshots was aimed at the legs and all were at the chest and face.

He said they had yet to receive copies of the dashcam recordings from the police vehicle, the first information report, all relevant police reports, and Section 112 statements by the Unit Tindakan Khas (UTK) members involved in the shooting.

Govindasamy, the father of Moganambal and Thavaselvan, also claimed that his daughter was with the trio and that she was now missing.

Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador has ordered an inquiry into the shooting, saying it is out of public interest to clear the air, although Uthayakumar dismissed it as an “eyewash”.

ED moves court to declare Zakir Naik a fugitive economic offender

Economictimes.indiatimes.com

The ED filed the application before the PMLA seeking that Naik be declared as a fugitive economic offender under Fugitive Economic Offenders Act.

MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday moved an application before a special court here seeking to declare controversial Islamic preacher, Zakir Naik, a fugitive economic offender.

Naik, believed to be in Malaysia, is facing the charge of allegedly laundering money to the tune of Rs 193 crore.

The ED filed the application before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) seeking that Naik be declared as a fugitive economic offender under Fugitive Economic Offenders Act.

The court said it would hear the application on September 30.

Last week, the court issued a fresh non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Naik in a 2016 money laundering case.

The central agency has so far arrested two of Naik's aides namely Amir Gazdar and Najamuddin Sathak.

The 53-year-old radical television preacher left India in 2016 and subsequently moved to the largely Muslim Malaysia, where he was granted permanent residency.

The ED booked him in 2016 on an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

The controversial preacher is wanted by authorities for alleged money laundering and inciting extremism through hate speeches.

In July this year, the court issued summons against Naik after taking cognisance of a complaint filed by the ED against Dubai-based jeweller Abdul Kadir Najmudin Sathak for allegedly assisting the preacher in raise and diverting funds.

Earlier, the agency had attached Naik's properties, including Islamic International School in Chennai, ten flats, three godowns, two buildings and land in Pune and Mumbai, besides bank accounts