Lawyer RSN Rayer said Sudhagaran was arrested at his home here at 10pm last night.

“We were told that it has to do with Sudhagaran’s posting on the leaders’ mural being defaced in Shah Alam,” he told FMT.

He later said that Sudhagaran was initially supposed to be brought to the Bayan Baru centralised lock-up for remand proceedings. However, he is still in detention at the Patani Road police station.

Sudhagaran, 35, is the northern region coordinator for the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism.

When contacted, Sudhagaran’s wife, Alicia James, said a group of 10 plainclothes policemen came to their apartment in Jelutong at about 10pm.

One of them told her husband that he was under arrest over a recent Facebook post as well as three others related to the movement control order.

“Sudhagaran just followed the policemen to their car,” she said.

Northeast district police chief Soffian Santong meanwhile confirmed that Sudhagaran was being held at the police station.

Adding that the case was based on a police report lodged at the Jalan Tun Razak police station in Kuala Lumpur, he said he had no further details.

Bukit Aman CID deputy director Mior Faridalathrash Wahid however said Sudhagaran would be investigated for sedition, making statements leading to public mischief and the misuse of internet services.

He said the investigation would be conducted under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505(b) of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

“We received a complaint against him from Jalan Tun Razak station. He has made several statements, including one that disputed police action during the movement control order,” he told FMT.

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