> Soldier sues his superiors

JOHOR BARU: A soldier is suing three superior officers for alleged slander and abuse at the Tanjung Sepang military post two months ago which left him deformed. He is seeking RM250,000 as compensation.

Prebet Khanafi Umar, 27, of the Royal Malay Regiment’s 10th Battalion, filed the suit at the Sessions Court Registry here yesterday.

He named his operations officer Mej Norazmi Idris, intelligence officer Kapt Saiful Adli Ishak and battalion commander Lt-Kol Adnaan Mahmod as the first, second and third defendants.

Pbt Khanafi, from Sarawak, said in his statement of claim that Mej Norazmi and Kapt Saiful had summoned him to the headquarters of the Tanjung Sepang post in Sungai Rengit, Kota Tinggi, at 10pm on Nov 3.

There, they supposedly accused him of raping an illegal immigrant and stealing her belongings during an operation on illegal immigrants, Pbt Khanafi said.

The two allegedly uttered a derogatory phrase against him, he said, adding that he was also stripped naked, had ants placed on his private parts and had a bayonet pointed at him to force a confession from him that he had raped the woman and stolen her things.

Pbt Khanafi claimed that he was hit with a computer power cord, kicked all over the body and punched and slapped on the face and body. As a result, he said he sustained cuts and bruises on the body and fractured his left hand.

He received treatment at Kota Tinggi Hospital and the military hospital in the Majidee camp.

During an assembly at the Tanjung Sepang post’s tactical headquarters on Nov 5, he said, Kol Adnaan had falsely accused him and three colleagues of rape and stealing. – Bernama