Lee Keng Fatt
New Straits Times

GEORGE TOWN, Sat:

DAP chairman Karpal Singh has denied that he and party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had condemned the police, labelling them as lazy and “good for nothing.”

“I did not say it and I do not use such words,” he said, in response to a report lodged by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). “It is a terrible thing to do.”

He also denied that he was at a ceramah in Air Itam on Wednesday as indicated in the police report.

“I have checked with Guan Eng and both of us are amused as to how the ASP could make such a report when we were not even at the venue giving ceramah as indicated. I was in Sri Delima then and not at Air Itam. It is therefore a lie,” he said.

He was commenting on a statement by George Town district police chief Assistant Commission Azam Abd Hamid that the police would call both Karpal and Lim to give a statement on the case.
Speaking at a press conference at the state DAP headquarters in Jalan Talipon, Karpal and Lim both said they would give statements to the police but at their convenience and not police’s because of the campaigning.

Karpal, the candidate for Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat, warned the police that he would not sit back but would also lodge a report if what the officer had indicated in his report was false.

“I take this matter very seriously and will not tolerate any lies from the police,” he said. “I find this is a good case for defamation because he had lied about us making the remark when we were not even there. Unless there were some clones out there. I would like to meet them.”

Karpal described the police report as a “normal scare tactic” usually used against the Opposition.