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PETALING JAYA: The magistrates’ court here dismissed a police request to extend the pre-trial detention of two businessmen involved in the highly publicized assault of two other customers at a hotpot restaurant last Tuesday.
Lawyer Suraj Singh said the court rejected the request to detain the duo, one of whom is a Datuk, for another three days.
Suraj said he argued against the extension of pretrial detention on the grounds that the suspects had cooperated with police investigations and did not pose a threat to the victims, a young man and his girlfriend.
He said the suspects would likely be released on bail tonight.
They are being investigated for assault and criminal intimidation, he added.
Both men surrendered to the Damansara Mutiara police station on Thursday at 2 pm and the police obtained a preventive detention order the next day to hold them until today.
The incident at the restaurant on Tropicana Avenue, hours before the motion control order went into effect Wednesday, sparked fury among Malaysians after two video clips went viral.
An argument broke out after a young man asked the Datuk and his friends to lower their voices.
Two men, believed to be drunk, slapped the man before one of them struck the victim’s girlfriend as they left the restaurant.
