IGP IS GOING AHEAD WITH DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST DSAI

The defamation suit by IGP against DSAI is on. Tan Sri Musa has claimed an unspecified amount in damages for slander and sought an injunction restraining Anwar, his servants or his agents from further publishing the defamatory words, costs and other relief deemed fit by the court.


IGP to go ahead with suit

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan is going ahead with his defamation suit against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

"His allegations indicated I was a dishonest and an irresponsible person," Musa said, adding he had to act to counter the baseless allegations hurled by Anwar in his police report.

"I will leave it to the courts to decide."

Musa, however, said he was grateful that he was cleared of the allegation of fabricating evidence against Anwar.

"I was never involved in the 'black-eye' incident. It was just an attempt to slander my name."

Musa, in his statement of claim, said Anwar's police report, in its natural and ordinary meaning, alleged that the IGP had misused his power to fabricate evidence.

He contended that by lodging the police report against him, Anwar had committed defamation repeatedly when he allowed the report to be reproduced on several websites, including his own blog, which is accessible by the public.

Musa argued that Anwar had acted as such to:

- divert public attention and focus away from the sodomy accusation by Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan;

- influence the public into thinking that the sodomy accusation was a political conspiracy against him; and

- to destroy any credible evidence and statements gathered by the police and witnesses in the likelihood that he is charged.

"As such, Anwar lodged the police report not to report facts but to support and justify his accusations."

The IGP claimed an unspecified amount in damages for slander and sought an injunction restraining Anwar, his servants or his agents from further publishing the defamatory words, costs and other relief deemed fit by the court.

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