KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 – Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim warned on Thursday of the action will be taken against anyone who intends to disrupt public order in Petaling Street on this coming Saturday. He said that the action would also be taken against anyone who makes such a threat in public places or also published on the social media.
“If we feel that a statement that is a threat to public order which can lead to a riot, the police will not hesitate to act. Meanwhile, the police were also empowered under sections 143 and 105 of the Penal Code to arrest anyone to prevent offences which also including inciting people to riot,” he told reporters after the Aidiladha sacrificial slaughter of animals and prayers at the Bukit Aman Mosque here on Thursday.
He said he will also summon the organisers of such a rally to have their statements recorded. He advised that the people who against to participating in the rally, saying that they would have to face the law if they did. Noor Rashid was asked to comment on an announced plan by certain quarters to stage a rally in Petaling Street on Saturday to protest, among other things, the presence of foreign traders and the alleged sale of counterfeit and imitation goods there.
“On another matter, there were no fresh arrests had been made over the murder of DPP Anthony Kevin Morais. So far, 11 suspects have been arrested but the body of Morais, 55, was also found stuffed in a cement-filled oil drum in Persiaran Subang Mewah, Subang Jaya, near here last Wednesday while he was reported missing on Sept 4 while driving to his office in Putrajaya from his condominium in Menara Duta, Kuala Lumpur,” said Noor Rashid.
