“Unless something very serious happens, I don’t sack people even though people ask me to do so,” he told reporters here.

Parliamentary opposition leader Ismail Sabri Yaakob had urged the prime minister to advise the Agong to sack Thomas, accusing him of interference in the prosecution of two DAP assemblymen charged with terrorism.

This comes after the Sessions Court yesterday dropped two charges of possessing items related to the defunct Tamil Tigers group LTTE against Negeri Sembilan assemblyman P Gunasekaran.

Ismail said dropping the charges was “a great slap to the police force which had carried out its duties professionally”.

Mahathir said he would abide by the rule of law.

“Sometimes people make mistakes. I would like to sack some of the opposition members because they make a lot of mistakes. But you know, we have rule of law.”