IPOH, Nov 21 (Bernama) - Raja Sherina, the woman the police have been looking for to assist them in the case involving an SMS rumour about Muslims being baptised, has been apprehended.
Perak police chief Datuk Abdul Aziz Bulat said that she was arrested in front of the Alor Star Hospital (HAS) at about 9.30pm Monday night.
She was with her 38-year-old husband and a son, three, when the arrest was made.
"When the arrest was made, she became hysterical but her husband remained calm. She was then brought to the HAS for treatment while the boy was surrendered to her husband," Abdul Aziz told reporters when met at the Ipoh police headquarters here Tuesday.
He said police had tracked her down to Alor Star after two other locations - Sitiawan and Sungai Petani - in their hunt for her did not bear fruit.
Yesterday, police issued to the media a picture of the woman after attempts to get her to surrender herself to the police proved unsuccessful.
Prior to the release of her picture, police had given Raja Sherina, believed to be in her 40s from Sungei Petani, Kedah, two 48-hour periods from last Wednesday to turn herself in.
Abdul Aziz said that after Raja Sherina was attended to for her hysteria, she and her husband were brought to the Ipoh police headquarters from Alor Star.
Her son was sent to a relative of hers in Alor Star to be cared for, he said.
He said that this (Tuesday) morning she again went into a hysterical state and was brought to the Ipoh hospital for treatment before being brought to the Magistrate's court here to obtain a remand order against them.
Abdul Aziz, however, declined to take reporters' questions as he was heading to an undisclosed destination.
At about 3 pm, the woman and her husband were ordered to be remanded for three days from today by Majistrate Syamsul Rezal Md Ariff.
On Nov 5, more than 500 Muslims gathered to protest in front of a Catholic church in Silibin here following the spread of an SMS rumour that national mariner Datuk Azhar Mansor would be participating in the baptism of a group of Muslims there.
The SMS had alleged that the Perak Mufti had confirmed that the baptism would take place.
However, on Nov 12, the mufti, Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria, on his return from a trip to Syria, revealed that Raja Sherina was the source of the SMS message.
He said that the woman had sent him the SMS and had also come to see him about it.
Azhar has since clarified that he has never renounced Islam and had nothing to do with the incident.
It turned out that the event at the church was for the first Holy Communion of 98 Indian children.
- BERNAMA
Originally read from The Daily express
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