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KUALA LUMPUR: Police have confirmed the identity of a man who was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at the Maluri LRT station in Cheras and expect to arrest him soon.
City police chief, Datuk Mohd. Shuhaily Mohd Zain, said the suspect is at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) seeking psychiatric treatment.
"He is now in HKL. We will arrest him soon," he said at a press conference at the City police headquarters here today.
On Saturday, Cheras police chief Assistant Commissioner Zam Halim Jamaluddin said police are in the midst of tracking down the suspect after receiving a police report on the incident from the victim.
A video of the incident has since gone viral. In the incident, the suspect was believed to have sexually assaulted a woman, who was waiting for a train at the platform on Friday morning.
Members of the public managed to pull the man off his victim.
The man, believed to be mentally ill, had also encroached onto the train tracks and beat his shoe against the side of a waiting train.
Auxiliary policemen at the station were unable to detain the man as he was "too aggressive."
Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, Mohd Shuhaily said police have detained a Ghanaian man who was captured on video climbing onto a car at the Kampung Pandan roundabout on July 17.
"The man has been remanded and will be charged under Section 427 of the Penal Code for mischief. He will also be sent for a psychiatric evaluation," he said.
In the video, the man was seen clambering onto the hood of a woman's car. The panicked woman sounded the horn several times before a member of the public came to her aid by pulling the man off her vehicle.