‘We are doing the same thing once again’

Tell us what happened: Police officers bringing in several suspects being held in connection with the fracas at the temple to the area of incident to facilitate the investigations. — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: Using draconian preventive laws to handle the Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple fracas is a bad move, said civil groups and a human rights commissioner.

The Penal Code has enough provisions to deal with threats of violence, they argued, warning that the use of excessively harsh laws went against the Pakatan Harapan government’s aim to do away with such legislation.