Inspector-General of Police Fuzi Harun said he was placed under investigation under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948.
“We have taken action after having received reports on him many days ago. We traced him today and caught him,” Fuzi told reporters at the Police Training Centre (Pulapol) here today.
FMT has yet to confirm the identity of the individual referred to as “Tuanku”, which is a title reserved for royal Malay rulers and for their children and grandchildren.
Wan Ji, 35, a popular Muslim preacher and PKR youth executive councillor in charge of religion, had taken his oath of office to assume duties under Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng on September 28.
According to Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, the strategic adviser to the chief minister, he was arrested moments after he gave a Friday sermon at Masjid Jalan Sembilang, Seberang Jaya, in Penang this afternoon.
He was then taken to Seberang Perai Tengah district police headquarters.
His arrest came just days after Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) officer Zamihan Mat Zin, who had also been arrested under the Sedition Act, posted a picture of Wan Ji on social media with the words “Wan Ji mahu sistem raja dihapuskan” .
Meanwhile, Bernama reported that recently Mohd Al-Fateh Surau Committee in Taman Pauh Jaya lodged a police report against Wan Ji for allegedly insulting the royal institution and the sultans through his talk and another police report was made in Kuala Lumpur.
Wan Ji was charged in court in 2014 on charges of making seditious statements to insult the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah via the Facebook social website.