SEPANG: Police confirmed that the pastor of a church in Taman Medan where a group of people had staged a protest on Sunday lodged a report on Tuesday.
Selangor police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Samah Mat said Victoria Paul of the Community of Praise Petaling Jaya Church came to the police station on Tuesday night to report against the 50 people who staged the protest on Sunday.
“So far, we have received just the one report. She made it yesterday (Tuesday) and as the Inspector-General of Police have said, we will investigate all the reports.
"We have commenced investigations," he told reporters.
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Abdullah Abu Bakar (pic), the elder brother of Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, is to give a statement to the police over Sunday's protest by a group outside a shoplot church in Taman Medan.
"This morning at about 10.45am, I received a call from the Petaling Jaya police station asking me to give a statement," he told The Star Online.
"I'm running a business at the moment but once I'm done with my work I will go there, sometime in the afternoon," he said.
Abdullah, the Taman Lindungan Jaya Umno branch chief, had been embroiled in controversy over his role in the protest and his links to the IGP.
He has said he was acting as an intermediary between the church leaders and protesters who had demanded that the church's cross be taken down and the church relocated from the Malay-majority neighbourhood.
He also said the protest had nothing to do with his brother.
The protesters claimed that the presence of the cross on the church building challenged Islam and could sway the beliefs of some Muslims.
However, many moderate Muslims, lawyers and public figures had criticised the protest.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the protesters could be investigatedunder the Sedition Act.
