Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I feel pity for Jeevanesan. How is he going to attend PSD scholarship interview on Thursday when can barely open his eyes to see? I’m sure the PSD interviewers will take into consideration his bravery and steadfastness as team leader in NS Camp.
Jeeva could have minded his own business, he could have cared less for his team mates. But he did not. He felt responsible and ticked of the group. Maybe he didn’t know that those youths were future (or even current) Mat Rempits. Just his bad luck.
Wish you and all other PSD interviewees all the best!
Jeevanesan Madhavan showing his swollen left eye yesterday. |
KUALA LUMPUR: An 11A Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia student, who aspires to be an engineer, fears his future might be bleak following an assault by fellow National Service trainees.
Jeevanesan Madhavan, 17, claimed he was beaten with a meal tray and punched for about five minutes by three trainees at the Seri Perkasa camp in Mantin, Negri Sembilan, last Thursday.
He suffers from blurred vision and headaches following the attack that left him with bruises and swelling on the face, neck and head.
“I fear I may fail my Public Service Department interview on Tuesday for a scholarship to pursue a mechatronics degree in Germany.”
Relating the incident at his home in Taman Bukit Kuchai, Puchong, yesterday, Jeevanesan said he returned to his dormitory at 8.15pm on Thursday, after jogging and found the door locked from the inside.
“I knocked on the door for quite some time before I discovered six trainees huddled inside, apparently playing truant from evening prayers.
“As leader of the team, I ticked them off, but they told me to mind my own business. I then took a shower. That’s when three of them attacked me.”
Jeevanesan said he reported the matter to camp commandant Major Md Yusof Mohammad who gave him first aid before dispatching an official to lodge a report at Mantin police station at 10.30pm.
Jeevanesan, a former student of SM Section 1, Bandar Kinrara in Puchong, was given four days’ leave to recuperate and told to report back to camp at 5pm yesterday.
“The commandant told me not to make an issue of the incident, dismissing it as a minor episode.”
Camp officials informed his parents, who came to fetch him on Friday.
He was sent to the University of Malaya Medical Centre for treatment the following day.
His father, Madhavan Kannayiram, 46, a company driver, lodged a complaint with the National Service Training Programme Department headquarters on Friday and one at the Puchong Jaya police station yesterday.
Madhavan and his wife, Suzie Ramasamy, 40, fear for Jeevanesan’s safety should he return to camp.
“I have informed the camp commandant and the programme headquarters that Jeevanesan has a phobia about continuing training,” said Madhavan.
Confirming the incident, National Service Training Programme Department director-general Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang Kechil said only one trainee was reported to have assaulted Jeevanesan with the other two trying to intervene.
He said Jeevanesan and the trainee who beat him would be excused from training until the case was settled.
“We want to allow both of them to ‘cool off’ as we do not want to disrupt the training of the others.”
In the report it was not stated as MAT REMPITS, so i assume we dont have any rights to accuse them ? as rempits and so on?
Racism is a two way street!
yes, its not stated in the report. i guess you are right, i was unhappy to see the boy’s face like that. no bikes, so not mat rempit. i would rephrase it as violent behaviour – that would make the attacker(s) a criminal, bully or thug? its premeditated – one or more of them went looking for him in the bathroom with tools in hand to bash him. motive, assault with intent, aggravated injury.