“Call this person in for investigation,” Khalid remarked on Twitter early this morning, Malaysiakini reported.

He had claimed that Pua was “deliberately distorting the facts” and that the Petaling Jaya Utara MP had “the aim of confusing the rakyat”, the report said.

Pua was quoted as having said on Twitter and Facebook that Khalid had alleged that Aminulrasyid, then 14, “was shot by police because there were dangerous weapons in his car”.

He had pointed out the “there was no proof that ‘police acted after discovering a [parang] in the car’ as Khalid had alleged at the time when he was Selangor CPO, and that Khalid had been declared ‘guilty of misfeasance’ by a High Court judge in a civil suit brought by Aminulrasyid’s family against the government, police and IGP.

“And he refused to even do the decent thing of apologising to the victim’s family,” Pua said about the IGP, who had said yesterday that he would not apologise “because my statement was based on the facts of the case at that time.”

The court held that Khalid’s remark that “a parang was found in the car” was an attempt to justify the actions of the police, who shot the boy in the head after a car chase resulted when he took his sister’s car out for a joy ride late at night in Shah Alam.

Yesterday Khalid insisted he was merely protecting his officers. “I never said that he used the parang. I only said that the parang was found in the car,” he said at a press conference.