Appeals court acquits chief inspector on bribery charge

PUTRAJAYA: A police chief inspector was today acquitted and discharged by the Court of Appeal here on a bribery charge.
A three-member panel chaired by Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Md Raus Sharif allowed Ahmad Kamar Ahmad Abbas's appeal to reverse the decisions of the Sessions Court and High Court which convicted him on the charge and sentenced him to four month's jail and RM10,000 fine.
Md Raus, who presided on the panel with Court of Appeal judges Datuk Aziah Ali and Datuk Mohd Zawawi Salleh, said it was not safe to convict Ahmad Kamar on that charge based on the sole testimony of another policeman.
The Kuala Pilah Sessions Court had on Aug 8, 2011, found Ahmad Kamar, 55, guilty of corruptly receiving a RM600 bribe as inducement to return a karaoke equipment to its owner as directed by a Tampin Magistrate's Court, at a restaurant in Tampin, Negeri Sembilan on Jan 28, 2008.
On Jan 29, last year, the Seremban High Court dismissed his appeal and upheld the decision of the sessions court.
Ahmad Kamar, who was formerly a police prosecuting officer at the Tampin Magistrate's Court, was represented by lawyers Haresh Mahadevan and Ramzani Idris. Ahmad Saifuddin was deputy public prosecutor. – Bernama