KUCHING: The Attorney-General’s Chambers will not drag a person to court based on emotions and general perception, said Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.
Thus, the people should remain calm and not point fingers when a case is not brought to court, he stressed.
“We cannot rely on our emotion to charge a person in court. Our conscience must be clear when we charge a person in court,” said Wan Junaidi to reporters at his Santubong Service Centre near here yesterday.
He also said if a certain case is brought to court and later thrown out, it will reflect badly on the attorney-general as well as the government.
To bring a case to court, Wan Junaidi explained, an investigation paper which is submitted to the attorney-general by the police must be thorough and based on a collection of facts.
And once the investigation paper is received by the attorney-general, it will then be evaluated in detail to ascertain if there is any breach of the law, he added.
He also said if the case is found to have not breached any law, the police will then be given the authority to advise the alleged person not to commit the same ‘mistakes’.
Touching on the recent case of Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, who had allegedly mocked the prime minister and the government through a video titled ‘Onederful Malaysia’ in conjunction with the Chinese New Year, Wan Junaidi said he would watch the video and go through the police reports.
He also said outside the August House, members of parliament or state representatives are bound by law on freedom as anyone else.
“Whatever you do in a democratic country, try not to cross the line of right or wrong. There is a limit to freedom and there is a law to go against you,” he added.