KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 — A religious teacher was arrested for allegedly assaulting his adoptive mother and inflicting injuries on her on Friday (January 19).
Ampang Jaya police chief ACP Mohd Azam Ismail said the teacher for Al-Quran and ‘Fardhu Ain’ (Kafa) classes was arrested at 12.30pm yesterday after he came to give a statement at the Ampang Jaya district police headquarters (IPD).
In the noon incident at a residence in the Sungai Sering Ukay Indah People’s Housing Project, the 28-year-old lashed out at his 76-year-old adoptive mother, angered at her frequent badgering for money to cover kitchen expenses.
“A medical officer’s examination at the Ampang Hospital found the woman, who adopted the man since birth, suffered injuries to the soft tissue of her head and abdomen,” he said today.
Azam said the man, who has a past criminal record, was on remand for four days until this Sunday (January 28) for the case to be investigated under Section 323 of the Penal Code for causing injury and Section 18A of the Domestic Violence Act.
In another case, the police arrested a 34-year-old man on Tuesday (January 23) for impersonating an officer of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and trying to cash a mosque cheque.
In the 2pm incident on Friday, the suspect presented himself as a MACC officer before ordering the treasurer of a mosque in Ampang Jaya to show the chequebook for a review, claiming there was a problem in the mosque’s financial management.
“After checking it, the man left while at 3pm, the treasurer received a call from the bank inquiring about a man who tried to cash a cheque for RM30,000 but which was rejected.
"The treasurer later found that a leaf of the chequebook was missing after the suspect examined it,” he said.
Azam said the jobless man was then arrested at 1.35pm at the Ampang Jaya IPD Criminal Investigation Division office and remanded for four days until Sunday to assist in the investigation under Section 170 of the Penal Code, which is for impersonation of a civil servant.
— Bernama
