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KUALA LUMPUR: A Datuk and two police officers arrested under the Crime Prevention (Poca) Act of 1959 in connection with an illegal online gambling syndicate, have filed an appeal for the rejection of their offer of immediate release.
The three are businessman Zaidi Kanapiah, or better known as “Datuk Addy Kana”, Corporal Muhamad Amin Nur Rashid Mohamed Puad and Corporal Mohd Hairy Mohammad, all between 34 and 39 years old.
Attorney Jacky Loi, who represented Zaidi and Hairy, when contacted, said the appeal against the Superior Court decision was filed in Federal Court on Monday.
“As our petitions are for habeas corpus, the appeal will go directly to the Federal Court,” he said.
Meanwhile, Amin’s lawyer, Shah Rizal Abdul Manan, said he filed the appeal yesterday.
On Monday, Superior Court Judicial Commissioner Aslam Zainuddin dismissed the trio’s requests for a writ of habeas corpus for their immediate release.
In their request, they requested an order that their respective arrests and detentions on October 11, 2020, under Section 4 (1) (c) of the Common Gambling Houses Act of 1953, were illegal, baseless and unfounded. they followed the procedure. and bad fide.
They also requested an order that the preventive detention order, dated October 14, 2020, issued by a magistrate of the Kuala Lumpur Magistrates Court, allow the police request for the arrest of the applicant for a period of 21 days. from October 14 to November 3 under Section 4 (1) (a) of Poca was illegal, without foundation and was in bad faith.
On October 30, Magistrate M Mageswary allowed a request from the police to extend the period of pretrial detention against the three for another 38 days until December 6.
They were previously in pretrial detention under Poca for 21 days starting on October 14.
