COMMENT | Different strokes for different folks

COMMENT | On March 29, Bukit Mertajam police brought to court 69 people who were arrested for violating the movement control order (MCO).

The alleged violators who were caught in Central Seberang Prai district were brought to the Magistrate’s Court to be remanded. The detainees, clad in orange lock-up garb, arrived in three police trucks while the three women arrested arrived in a van.

In July, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali holidayed in Turkey and returned to Parliament without having undergone quarantine as required by the health authorities. Despite the furore that followed, he was not penalised.

Attorney-General Idrus Harun explained: “After full consideration and deliberation of all available evidence, this Chambers finds that there was no home surveillance or observation order issued by the authorised officer in the exercise of his discretion to the minister for him to observe such home surveillance or observation order.”...