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PETALING JAYA: The Datuk seen in the widely shared videos assaulting a man and a woman in a hot restaurant here will be charged on Thursday (January 21), police say.
“He will be charged under Sections 323 (willfully causing harm), 427 (causing harm) and 290 (public nuisance) of the Penal Code,” said Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal in a text message to the media on Wednesday ( January 20).
As for Datuk’s friend who was with him during the incident, he will also be charged under Sections 323 and 290 of the Penal Code, said ACP Nik Ezanee.
Both will be charged in the Petaling Jaya court.
The assault, which took place recently on Tropicana Avenue, was a hot topic among Malaysians, as it not only involved a titled person but one of the alleged victims is the son of another Datuk.
The vice president of the Perak Chinese Assembly Hall, Datuk Kwan Foh Kwai, had confirmed that his son was slapped during the incident.
In two videos that have gone viral, two victims, including Kwan’s son, were slapped.
The initial police report indicated that the other person who was slapped was a waitress, but Chinese vernacular newspapers reported that she is the victim’s girlfriend.
The heated discussion is believed to have started after the victims complained about the noise the suspects were allegedly making at the restaurant.
On Monday, the first suspect, identifying himself as Datuk Tan, apologized in a video message, saying that both he and his friend, whom he referred to as Ang Lee, were drunk at the time.
Tan also called on the public to accept his apologies and not involve their families in the episode after they turned themselves in to the police.
Both Tan and the friend were released on police bail on Saturday after their two days of pretrial detention expired.
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