KUALA LUMPUR: Demonstrators and those who carried and spoke while stepping on a cow’s head in front of Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah in Shah Alam on Aug 28 will be charged.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said that he was satisfied with the facts and evidence gathered by police that the demonstrators should be taken to court.

The police had submitted the investigation paper in respect of the protest by residents of Section 23 Shah Alam to him this afternoon, he said in a statement yesterday.

Abdul Gani said those who carried and spoke while stepping on the cow head will be charged under Section 4 (1) of the Sedition Act alternatively under Section 298 of the Penal Code.

Section 298 states that “whoever, with deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person, utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of that person, or makes any gesture in the sight of that person, or places any object in the sight of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine or with both”.

Section 4 (1) of the Sedition Act applies to: “Any person who: (a) does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do, or conspires with any person to do, any act which has or which would, if done, have a seditious tendency; (b) utters any seditious words; (c) prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, distributes or reproduces any seditious publication; (d) imports any seditious publication.”

Such person “shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding RM5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or both, and, for a subsequent offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; and any seditious publication found in the possession of the person or used in evidence at his trial shall be forfeited and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs”.

Abdul Gani said the demonstrators would also be facing another charge under Section 27 (5) of the Police Act for illegal assembly, he said. On Aug 28, residents of Section 23, Shah Alam held a protest against the proposed relocation of a Hindu temple to that area.

— Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: Demonstrators and those who carried and spoke while stepping on a cow’s head in front of Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah in Shah Alam on Aug 28 will be charged.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said that he was satisfied with the facts and evidence gathered by police that the demonstrators should be taken to court.

The police had submitted the investigation paper in respect of the protest by residents of Section 23 Shah Alam to him this afternoon, he said in a statement yesterday.

Abdul Gani said those who carried and spoke while stepping on the cow head will be charged under Section 4 (1) of the Sedition Act alternatively under Section 298 of the Penal Code.

Section 298 states that “whoever, with deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person, utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of that person, or makes any gesture in the sight of that person, or places any object in the sight of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine or with both”.

Section 4 (1) of the Sedition Act applies to: “Any person who: (a) does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do, or conspires with any person to do, any act which has or which would, if done, have a seditious tendency; (b) utters any seditious words; (c) prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, distributes or reproduces any seditious publication; (d) imports any seditious publication.”

Such person “shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding RM5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or both, and, for a subsequent offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; and any seditious publication found in the possession of the person or used in evidence at his trial shall be forfeited and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs”.

Abdul Gani said the demonstrators would also be facing another charge under Section 27 (5) of the Police Act for illegal assembly, he said. On Aug 28, residents of Section 23, Shah Alam held a protest against the proposed relocation of a Hindu temple to that area.

— Bernama