Kelantan Sultan's wife in hospital to evade police

Frankie D'Cruz

MARHALIM ABAS

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 13:45:00

KOTA BARU: The Raja Perempuan Kelantan Tengku Anis Tengku Abdul Hamid  (pic) has been holed up at a hospital here since last night to evade police arrest and to be by the side of her husband, the Sultan of Kelantan, Tuanku Ismail Petra, who was reportedly forcibly warded there.
She told The Malay Mail by telephone this morning that the Sultan was being held against his will and that the police had ignored his orders to take him back to the palace.

Tengku Anis, who spent most the night on the floor outside Royal Ward on Level 8 of the Universiti Sains Malaysia hospital, later managed to enter the ward and lock herself in.
Meanwhile, the Sultan's lawyers, Datuk Mohamed Haaziq Pillay and Gobind Singh Deo, arrived here this morning to seek the Sultan's release from hospital.
Haaziq said they will file a habeas corpus writ in the Kuala Lumpur High Court if they fail to get their client's release.

Tengku Anis, relating her ordeal last night, claimed that the police had allegedly abused her and "pulled me like a cow" in an attempt to take her to the police station last night.

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