DAKWAAN LIWAT BERNIAT JAHAT

Dakwaan liwat terhadap Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berniat jahat dan tidak boleh diterima memandangkan ketiadaan penemuan perubatan berhubung penetrasi, Mahkamah Tinggi di sini diberitahu Isnin.

Peguam R.Sivarasa, yang mewakili Anwar, berkata bukanlah satu perkara baru bahawa untuk melakukan dakwaan liwat mengikut Seksyen 377B Kanun Keseksaan, penetrasi merupakan perkara utama dan teras.

Beliau berkata dalam kes ini, tiada bukti perubatan yang pasti bagi mencadangkan berlaku penetrasi ke dalam dubur pengadu, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

"Berdasarkan laporan perubatan oleh pegawai perubatan dari Pusrawi yang mula-mula sekali memeriksa pengadu, dinyatakan bahawa dubur itu tidak berdarah, tidak cedera, tidak bernanah dan ia adalah bersih, kering serta kelihatan normal," katanya, sambil menambah perkara itu turut disokong oleh laporan perubatan Hospital Kuala Lumpur yang menyatakan bahawa penetrasi tidak berlaku.

Oleh itu, beliau berhujah hakikat itu cukup untuk mahkamah membatalkan dakwaan terhadap Anwar memandangkan jelas bahawa tiada kesalahan yang telah dilakukan.

Sivarasa berhujah di hadapan Hakim Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah berhubung permohonan Anwar untuk membatalkan dakwaan liwat terhadapnya.

Pada 10 Mac, Anwar mengaku tidak bersalah terhadap dakwaan meliwat Mohd Saiful Bukhari, 24, bekas pembantu peribadinya, di sebuah kondominium di Bukit Damansara di sini pada 27 Jun tahun lepas.

Sivarasa turut berhujah bahawa dakwaan terhadap Anwar tidak berasaskan bukti sebaliknya berat sebelah, menyalahi undang-undang, berniat jahat, bermotifkan politik dan menyalahgunakan proses mahkamah.

Beliau berkata mahkamah mempunyai hak dan kuasa sedia ada untuk membenarkan permohonan membatalkan atau menangguhkan dakwaan itu bagi mengelak pendakwaan yang menindas dan mempunyai niat buruk terhadap Anwar.

Sivarasa berkata pembabitkan Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail dalam kes itu jelas menunjukkan niat jahat terhadap Anwar, memandangkan beliau disiasat oleh Badan Pencegah Rasuah (kini Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia) berikutan laporan polis terhadap beliau oleh Anwar membabitkan pemalsuan keterangan dalam insiden "mata lebam" ketika Anwar ditahan polis pada 1998.

Peguam Cara Negara II Datuk Mohamed Yusof Zainal Abiden yang mengetuai pasukan pendakwaan berkata mahkamah mempunyai bidang kuasa sedia ada untuk membatalkan atau menangguhkan dakwaan itu, bagi membetulkan salah laksana keadilan jika dakwaan itu benar-benar merupakan penyalahgunaan proses mahkamah.

"Bagaimanapun kami berpendapat dalam tindakan ini, ia hanya untuk menghentikan prosiding atau untuk menghalang mahkamah daripada terus mendengar kes ini," katanya.

Mohamed Yusof berkata berdasarkan laporan DNA oleh ahli kimia, terdapat spesimen DNA campuran daripada dua lelaki di tempat kejadian, yang menyokong dakwaan Mohd Saiful bahawa dia diliwat oleh Anwar.

"Ini bukanlah kes yang sewajarnya untuk mahkamah menggunakan kuasa sedia ada bagi membatalkan atau menangguhkan dakwaan memandangkan pendakwaan tidak tahu bagaimana kes itu memudaratkan Anwar," katanya.

Hakim Mohamad Zabidin menetapkan 1 Dis untuk keputusan.

UNITY IS NOT AN OPTION

MCA Deputy President Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek says that unity is not an option for MCA, but a necessity,and party leaders have to admit that internal strife in the past one year had paralysed the party, he said in an interview with Bernama.

He said: "If you want to talk about unity, one should not pursue (the rigid stance of) who is right and who is wrong as it would be endless."

He admitted that he was the cause of the Oct 10 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) because he was unhappy with certain party decisions.

But Dr Chua said much water had flowed under the bridge.

"Enough is enough. You just need to move forward," he said.

As leaders and members of a political party, he said there should be realisation that "we must work together".

He said there was greater awareness by president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat on this, and that "we should bury the hatchet."

"He and me (recently) sat down together to discuss how to make MCA more united and stable," he said.

Elaborating on the Greater Unity Plan (GUP), he said that it was important that there should be sincerity to make it work.

"No point of (just giving) lip service if you are not sincere and no mutual respect -- the respect that everyone has a role to play," he added.

"As a political party, one has to recognise that there would never be 100 per cent unity.

"As long as the majority are supportive of a particular or certain cause or supportive of the party's central leadership, then the party is united. There is always a small minority who is not happy.

"There is no secret weapon to achieve unity. We need to be united, strong and stable. Only then can we carry out our activities, only then can we win the trust and confidence of the rakyat," he said.

Dr Chua explained that the MCA, as a political party, depended on the people's support and therefore it cannot carry on as a piece of dead wood.

"We are all elected to serve (the people), not (the other way round) for the people to serve us."

Dr Chua said there was no doubt that after the Oct 10 EGM, another splinter group had emerged.

"But as far as the GUP is concerned, it would be have to be inclusive and this group of people should be included."

Asked if he and Ong had shut the door to this group, Dr Chua said the party welcomed anybody who could contribute to the unity and strength of the MCA.

He said the MCA top leadership would go down to states to explain about the GUP.

Asked on the Nov 28 EGM called by some CC members, Dr Chua said one could not call for an EGM while repeatedly saying that it was in the name of democracy when it was already discussed at the CC meeting of Nov 3 that the motion for it ran against the MCA's constitution.

"If you do something in the name of democracy but the party's constitution says that it is unconstitutional, then you open up an avenue for debate and this may cause greater disunity," he said.

He said the group concerned could be persistent to have an EGM on Nov 28 but the question remained whether there would be enough support.

"If their idea is just to hold fresh elections, the question will be whether it can be implemented or not.

"The party's constitution said that it can only hold fresh polls once in three years or when 2/3 of elected CC resigned. So the motion of Nov 28 EGM does not address this," he said.