Conditional discharge as director is still missing
07/04/2007 The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: A property company director, accused of lodging a false police report over a land title worth RM10mil and who jumped bail a year ago, was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal yesterday.

Sessions Court judge Akhtar Tahir discharged P. Selvarajah, 52, and cancelled arrest warrants issued against him after all attempts to trace him failed.

However, if Selvarajah is found, the case against him can be resurrected.

Selvarajah was released on a RM50,000 bail after he was charged in court with giving false information/statement and cheating. He jumped bail on April 3 last year.

After failing to trace him, police put him on their wanted list and circulated it at various entry and exit points in the country.

The fugitive, a director of Liptown Properties Sdn Bhd, was to have been produced at the court here yesterday after three arrest warrants were brought against him last year.

Earlier, DPP Fatimah Zahari told Akhtar that the arrest warrants could not be delivered to the accused.

Selvarajah had claimed trial on Aug 1, 2005, to giving false information to L/Kpl Magdaline Bruno concerning particulars over a land title. He was said to have committed the offence at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station on Feb 23, 2004.

He is said to have given a false statement to commissioner of oaths Ralph Kinny Fernandez concerning an account at Kompleks Wilayah 2 in Jalan Munshi Abdullah on March 10, 2004.

Selvarajah also faces a third charge of duping assistant land administrator Nasir Mamat, 47, into believing that Liptown Properties was the registered owner of a RM10mil plot of land at Lot 1599 in Jalan Klang Lama and that the land title had gone missing.

He had, thereby, induced Nasir to gazette the land, cancel the previous land title and issue a new title to replace the alleged missing document.