Social activist optimistic in bid to prosecute 2 for allegedly insulting non-Islamic faiths

By Sharunya Raja

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28: Social activist S. Shashi Kumar is hopeful that he will succeed in his attempt to commence a private prosecution against two Muslim converts for allegedly insulting non-Islamic faiths.

He said this in response a judicial review application in the High Court by two men to challenge the attorney-general’s discretion in not Perlis-based preacher Zamri Vinoth Kalimuthu and Multiracial Reverted Muslims founder and president Firdaus Wong Wai Hung.

““We don’t know why the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) concluded not to charge two of them by following the police which had classified their cases as “no further action (NFA).”

“AGC should not take instructions from the police, it is the other way around,” Shashi told The Hindu Press when contacted.

Shashi also stressed that thousands of police reports has been lodge against Zamri and Firdaus previously.

Shashi is attempting to commence a private prosecution against Zamri and Firdaus.

The matter is pending at the Shah Alam magistrates’ court.

On Thursday, FMT reported that S. Sivakumar and M. Rajasegaran have filed a judicial review application in the High Court to declare that the attorney-general’s decision not to charge Zamri and Firdaus as recorded in the Shah Alam magistrates’ court on April 26 is invalid and must be quashed.