KUALA LUMPUR: Police have denied claims that a police officer from the Selangor police contingent was the person seen brutally murdered in a video which went viral on social media yesterday.
Selangor Criminal Investigations Department head Datuk Fadzil Ahmat said the policewoman had lodged a report regarding the matter in Klang yesterday.
He said the video was considered a threat to the police officer's safety and the case had been classified as criminal intimidation.
"We're investigating it under Section 509 (of the Penal Code) for insulting the modesty and have opened an investigation paper on the case. We will investigate who (the individual) is sharing the victim's photographs and video on social media," he told Bernama today.
Meanwhile, the force said in a statement that there was no truth in the claims linking the incident to the policewoman.
A video, which went viral yesterday, showed a woman believed to be a police officer, with her hands and legs tied, being brutally murdered.
Photographs of a police officer, said to be the woman in the video, were also shared. -- Bernama