KUALA LUMPUR – Police have submitted the investigation paper involving a religious speaker suspected of raping an underage girl to the deputy public prosecutor’s office.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Azmi Abu Kassim said the paper was submitted today and police would await further instruction.
On July 28, Azmi was reported to have said that the suspect, in his 30s, was handed over to Perak police after his remand order obtained by Kuala Lumpur police expired on July 27.
It was reported previously that the religious speaker was arrested by the Kuala Selangor police at 4.50pm on July 18 for investigation under Section 376 of the Penal Code for rape and Section 14 (a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017.
Based on the initial investigation, the suspect and the underaged girl got to know each other after the girl contacted him on social media on religious matters before getting into a relationship with him in May last year.
So far, four police reports have been lodged against the suspect, two in Selangor and one each in Kuala Lumpur and Perak. – Bernama, August 2, 2022
