KUALA LUMPUR – Police are conducting investigations into a post on the Instagram account of the mother of a popular celebrity found to have allegedly criticised Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar.
Brickfields district police chief Anuar Omar said the investigation was conducted after the celebrity’s mother, a 54-year-old woman, lodged a report at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station here at 5.44pm yesterday.
“Investigations found that a 32-year-old woman admitted to mistakenly using the Instagram (account) of the celebrity’s mother to write the critical caption on the account’s Instagram Story," he said in a statement last night.
Anuar said police are still investigating the matter under Section 504 of the Penal Code, Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, and Section 14 of the Minor Offences Act 1955.
Yesterday, the Instagram account belonging to the celebrity’s mother featured images of TV3 news with a visual of the sultan of Johor titled “Sultan of Johor Proposes Full Targeted Lockdown”, along with the critical caption.
The celebrity’s mother, however, claimed that one of her employees had misused her Instagram account for personal use, and filed a police report yesterday evening. – Bernama, May 31, 2021
