All 27 Perak Pakatan Rakyat assemblypersons turned their backs on a police directive to appear at the Ipoh district headquarters today for questioning over the Sept 2 assembly sitting at the Heritage Hotel.

Pakatan spokesman and assemblyperson A Sivanesan said that all had received letters from Ipoh crime chief Anthony Glenn last week to appear in person at police headquarters at 10am today.

The only exception was Titi Serong assemblyperson Khalil Idham Lim Abdullah, who had been in Mecca performing the Haj that day.

BN members lodged a report at the Sungai Senam police station on Sept 5 against the Pakatan assembly sitting. Police are investigating the report under Section 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

NONEThe police want their record their statements on what had transpired during the assembly sitting at the Heritage Hotel.

"We have been instructed by our lawyers to ignore the police directive until we have received a copy of the police report lodged against us by BN on Sept 5.

"Our lawyers want to know the contents of the report before responding to the directive and in no way are we going to entertain the police call.

"Let them get an order from the Magistrate's Court to make us comply," said Sivanesan, also a lawyer, said.

He pointed out that they can invoke Section 112 of CPC which states that they are not required give any evidence into a police enquiry if it is self-incriminating.

Police bias very blatent

Sivanesan said the police were practising double standards when they arrested or summoned Pakatan assemblypersons involved in that sitting.

The police had obtained a warrant to stop anyone from coming within a 500-metre radius of the state secretariat on Sept 2 to prevent Pakatan assemblymen from conducting their assembly sitting.

When they tried to walk from the Perak DAP headquarters towards the state secretariat, police ordered them to disperse and arrested Malim Nawar assemblyman Keshvinder Singh, two DAP supporters and himself, said Sivanesan.

NONE"However, the police never laid hands on about 30 BN men wearing yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘Daulat Tuanku' who were protesting in front of our headquarters on Sept 2.

"This is double standards by a police force which is supposed to be impartial and safeguard the interests of all Malaysians," he said.

The Pakatan assemblymen then switched venues to Hotel Heritage to conduct the assembly.

The BN group followed and started to provoke and jeer the assemblypersons, prompting Sivensan to phone the Ipoh crime chief to remove ‘the BN thugs' as he termed them.

"On both these two rowdy occasions (one in front DAP headquarters and the other in front of Heritage Hotel), not one of the men from the BN group was arrested by the police.

"The police, however, were swift to arrest PAS supporters who protested during the swearing-in ceremony of the BN government in February and charged them in court.

"Why could not the same action be taken by the police against these BN thugs on Sept 2?" he asked.