At Bukit Aman, ASP Rajakopal told me that the police had to pay a visit to my office. At 15:00hr, Rajakopal and his colleague ASP Sohaimi Daud arrived at Suara Keadilan office at Brickfields.
I must admit they did the raid ‘politely’. Although I was forewarned by lawyers that under OSA the police have the power to search a premise without warrant, I insisted to go through the motion. I told the two officers, as a formality I would still demand them to read me the relevant section in the law which empowers them to conduct such raid. Rajakopal hastily looking up in his handphone and said: “it’s here somewhere”. Then he called up his office and asked for the reference. After 10 minutes on the phone, the ASP got his answer.
ASP Rajakopal formally announced that under Section 19 of the OSA, he now requested my cooperation for his to conduct a search in my office. I was glad that he had to do some extra work. I was of course very confident as Lateefah Koya, my young lawyer comrade stood besides me observing the raid.
They spent more than half an hour to search the office. They went through all cabinets and drawers, however found no secret documents. A police photographer came along and took pictures of our office.
Rajakopal then told me that he had to search my house. I went in his car, accompanied by Lateefah to my officially registered residency in Sentul.
They did the same search in Sentul. Again, they found nothing suspicious. By 16:00hr, the police concluded the raid and went back empty handed.
Well, this was proabably just the first cross sword. I should expect more to come.
ASP Rajakopal and ASP Sohaimi searching for the secret document:
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| Any secret? |
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| ASP Sohaimi going through our account carefully |
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| What’s in there? |
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| The policemen find Zunar’s cartoon amusing |
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| All things cleared! No seizure. No secret found here! |