this is related to the assault on customer by Giant's hypermarket guards.
| Youth cries assault, protest held outside Giant http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/75135 |
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About 100 people had gathered outside the Giant hypermarket in Section 13, Shah Alam, on Sunday to vent their anger.
The crowd had been irked by an incident where the hypermarket’s security guards had allegedly assaulted an Indian youth and insulted the Hindu religion. Armed with placards, which among others read ‘Don’t insult our religion’, the demonstrators demanded that Giant apologise and sack the security guards involved.
The technician filed a police report on Nov 19 with the Section 11 police station in Shah Alam after he was released. It could not be ascertained how long Sashindran was detained. According to the report, a copy of which was obtained by Malaysiakini, Sashindran claimed that the security guards had also erased a religious marking on his forehead. Apart from this, they also allegedly snatched his locket containing a picture of the Hindu deity, Lord Krishna, and threw it away. ‘Mental torture’ “I placed the (car accessories) on the counter to pay but then received a phone call from my uncle. I answered the phone away from the counter and upon returning was stopped by the two guards,” Shasindran stated in his report. “Then I was brought into a room where they beat me up and forced me to confess to stealing (the car accessories) when I did not even do it,” he added. However, Shashindran claimed that he made a confession after being subjected to ‘mental torture’ by the two security guards. “That is when they placed the items which I had supposedly tried to steal into my sling-bag and took me to the police station,” he added. Contacted today, Giant marketing director Ho Mun Hao denied Sashindran’s account of the incident. He claimed that the CCTV recording at the outlet “clearly showed” that the technician was attempting to shoplift the items. “If he wants to bring it to court, so be it. We have evidence that he did steal those items. He is cornered and (that is why) he is trying to turn the matter into a race issue now,” he said. ‘Death threat’ According to Sashindran, his ordeal did not end with the security guards. He alleged that a police officer at the Section 11 police station had also threatened him when the security guards took him there.
“He (Azami) said he can shoot me and dump my body anywhere and my family or friends will not find out about it. It was an attempt to get my confession and I did (confess). I feared for my life,” he said. Shah Alam district police chief Noorazam Jammaludin told Malaysiakini that he would call for an internal probe to determine if Azami had acted irresponsibly when questioning Sashindran. “We also sent Sashindran to the Klang Hospital to do a medical check-up to see if he was indeed assaulted by the two Giant security guards,” he said. Sashindran has since been charged with theft and is currently on bail pending trial. |
In the Nov 16 incident, R Sashindran, 22, was allegedly beaten up by two security guards after they accused him of trying to steal car accessory products. 
In his Nov 19 police report, the youth claimed that “Sergeant Azami Saari” had threatened to kill him if he did not confess.