{"id":63379,"date":"2020-02-26T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63379"},"modified":"2020-02-26T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:01:47","slug":"last-two-accused-of-links-with-ltte-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63379","title":{"rendered":"Last two accused of links with LTTE acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — The joy of freedom for the acquitted. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Two more men accused of supporting the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)\u00a0terrorist group were acquitted\u00a0and\u00a0discharged\u00a0by two\u00a0separate High Courts\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b here today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the latest discharge, all 12 men, including two state assemblymen, who were\u00a0charged with having links with LTTE, have been freed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Court judges Mohamed Zaini Mazlan and Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali issued the release order after deputy public prosecutors  Mohd Farhan Aliff Ahmad and Muhammad Asyraf Minhad informed them that they had received instructions from the Attorney-General to discontinue the proceedings against  businessman B. Subramaniam, 58, and storekeeper S. Thanagaraj, 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, Mohd Farhan Aliff and Muhammad Asyraf applied to stop the proceedings against the them in accordance with Section 254 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code and stated that there was no prospect for the charges against all the accused to be reinstated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawyers S. Selvam and Gaithri Thomas representing Subramaniam and lawyer Dr N. Ahilan representing Thanagaraj, requested for their clients to be acquitted and discharged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Mohd Nazlan said both men were were acquitted and discharged under Section 254 (3) of the Criminal Procedure Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo were alleged to have supported the LTTE by using their respective Facebook accounts named \u2018US SUBRA SUBRAMANIAM and and \u2018Tamilarasan Sivam\u2019 at the Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Division (E8)  here, between January and October last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were charged under Section 130J (1) (a) of the Penal Code, which carries a life sentence or a maximum 30 years\u2019 jail term or fine and forfeiture of any asset used or intended to be used to commit the offences, upon conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanagaraj was also charged with two counts of possessing items with elements of terrorist acts in his cellphone at two different locations in Penang on Oct 12 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was charged under Section 130JB (1) (a) of the Penal Code, which provides for a maximum jail term of seven years or a fine and confiscation of any such property, upon conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family members of both accused were present in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the High Court also acquitted and discharged Seremban Jaya assemblyman P. Gunasekaren, 61, and taxi driver V. Balamurugan, 38, on similar charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, Gadek assemblyman G. Saminathan, 35, technician S. Arivainthan, 28; security guard, M. Pumugan, 30; DAP member, V. Suresh Kumar, 44; Melaka Green Technology Corporation chief executive officer, S. Chandru, 39; teacher, Sundram Renggan @ Rengasamy, 53; scrap metal collector A. Kalaimughilan, 29, and dispatch rider S. Teeran, 39, were also acquitted and discharged by the High Court on similar charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of them were previously arrested under the Security Offenses (Special Measures) Act 2012 (SOSMA) which does not offer bail. They were placed in the Sungai Buloh Prison pending trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb 21,\u00a0Attorney-General\u00a0Tan Sri Tommy Thomas decided to drop all charges\u00a0against the 12 people accused of supporting the LTTE on the grounds that there were no realistic prospects of conviction\u2019\u00a0against any of them\u00a0on any of the 34 charges brought against them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Two more men accused of supporting the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)\u00a0terrorist group were acquitted\u00a0and\u00a0discharged\u00a0by two\u00a0separate High Courts\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b here today.\u00a0 With the latest discharge, all 12 men, including two state assemblymen, who were\u00a0charged with having links with LTTE, have been freed. High Court judges Mohamed Zaini Mazlan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":63380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}