DAP aide remanded two days over alleged molest of student

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GEORGE TOWN: A DAP state assemblyman's aide has been remanded for two days to assist in investigations of an alleged sexual assault of a student.

Deputy registrar Ahmad Tajudin Zain granted the remand order on Friday.

The man, a former Penang city councillor was arrested at 9.30pm Thursday.

He was escorted to court at 10.38am and left the premises at 11.50am.

The aide is said to have molested the 21-year-old college student who worked part-time as a waitress.

The incident was said to have taken place at a carpark of an entertainment outlet in Beach Street on the night of July 6.

The student claimed, in a police report she lodged the next day, that the man who was drunk, hugged and kissed her several times when they got to his car.

She claimed that the man, in his 40s, grabbed her private parts, unzipped his pants, demanded oral sex and started masturbating.

She claimed that the man offered her between RM500 and RM700 to spend the night with him but she refused and pleaded for him to stop his advances.

The student said the aide then drove off in his car.

A written account of the incident and photographs of the man and victim have since gone viral on social media.

Police are investigating the case under Section 354 of the Penal Code for assault on a person with the intent of outraging her modesty.