MyWatch chief released
POCA ORDER: High Court rules Sanjeevan’s detention is null and void
THE High Court yesterday released Malaysian Crime Watch Task Force (MyWatch) chairman Datuk R. Sri Sanjeevan from Prevention of Crime Act (Poca) 2013 detention.
Judicial commissioner Datuk Mohamad Shariff Abu Samah, in allowing Sanjeevan’s habeas corpus application, ruled that his detention was null and void.
Shariff said that a detention of this nature required strict compliance with the law.
Sanjeevan, 32, challenged the 21day remand order made against him under Poca by the magistrate’s court on July 11.
“There are doubts in the detention order and those doubts open up various interpretations. The order, issued in the magistrate’s court, says that Sanjeevan has been charged and committed to prison, when he is still under investigation
(centre) being led out of the magistrate’s court in Seremban on July 19 after pleading not File pic
and has been remanded. Therefore, the order is defective,” Shariff said.
Sanjeevan, who was remanded under Section 4(1)(a) of Poca, was first arrested on June 22 after a
gambling operator claimed that Sanjeevan had extorted RM25,000 from him as protection money.
Since his initial arrest, several reports have been lodged against
him for alleged extortion.
Deputy public prosecutor Mohammad Al-Saifi Hashim prosecuted, while Sanjeevan was represented by Gobind Singh Deo.