CID chief denies Khalid posed with sexual questions

National CID chief Mohd Bakri Mohd Zinin has denied allegations that his men posed irrelevant questions, including those of a sexual nature, to undergraduate Khalid Ismath.

During a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today, Mohd Bakri dismissed the allegations made by Khalid’s lawyer as “nonsense”.

“The allegation is a nonsensical allegation because the police investigation was done professionally,” he said.

He also added that there is a set of investigation procedures needed to be follow and the police cannot “just simply ask any questions”.

“We cannot ask ‘Are you there’, and then the answer to us is ‘I am sleeping with somebody else’. (That answer) cannot be relevant to the question we asked in investigation.

“We have to go in-line with our procedure.”

Khalid was arrested by the police last Saturday over the claims that he had kicked a traffic police officer during the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28.

Yesterday, his lawyer Latheefa Koya claimed that he was asked strange questions, such as whether he knew the Bersih coalition was symphathetic to homosexuals and whether he likes to masturbate.

Khalid was also asked whether he knows that Facebook is owned by a Jewish person and that his Internet subscription fees go straight into Jewish pockets.

Khalid is now being investigated by the police over a photo which shows a man attacking a traffic police officer during the Bersih 3.0 rally.

Although some mainstream newspapers have accussed Khalid as the attacker, however the law student has maintained that he is a victim of mistaken identity.

He stressed that the attacker in the photo is a completely different person and that he donned a different coloured shirt that day.