KUALA LUMPUR – Police have rubbished a woman’s claim that her request to travel across state lines to take her sick father to hospital two weeks ago was denied, saying there is no record of her application on the date.
Cheras deputy district police chief Annas Sulaiman said this is based on checks on the Salak South police station’s MySejahtera app check-in and visitor’s log book dated April 17, which found no information of her.
“The woman expressed her disappointment through her social media account by claiming the police are heartless,” he said in a statement today.
“She also expressed her sadness, claiming that because she was denied approval, this led to her father’s death on April 28.
“Checks on MySejahtera and our logbook found no record of her checking in to the station on April 17. There is also no record of her interstate travel application on the said date, as she claims.”
Annas added the woman had been granted approval to travel across state borders on four different occasions this year.
These were on January 15 to visit her father in Mawar Hospital, Seremban; February 11 to travel to Melaka for family matters; April 26 to attend a job interview in Melaka; and, on April 28 and her father’s in Nilai. All four applications were approved, Annas said.
In a Facebook post on April 28, Aida Najwa Nasir, 26, claimed her application on April 17 to travel to Nilai to take her disabled and ill father to hospital in Seremban following complications with his dialysis treatment was rejected.
Aida said, among other things, the police had asked if her aunt, who usually takes her father to the hospital, was dead.
She claimed the police had also asked why her siblings in Nilai – one of whom was working and the other who does not know how to drive – did not book for Grab service for her father, Nasir Nordin, 52.
Despite explaining her father’s disability, she said the police were adamant about not granting approval for the interstate travel.
Her Facebook post has since been taken down.
The Vibes had earlier today attempted to contact Aida via Facebook but did not receive any response. – The Vibes, April 30, 2021
