IPOH: Police have launched an investigation into allegedly offensive remarks posted on a Facebook account about the 15 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris students who died in the recent road accident in Gerik.
Manjung police chief Hasbullah Abd Rahman said a report was received at about 4.40pm on Wednesday.
“A Facebook account under the name ‘Khalid Yunus’ was found to have posted offensive remarks about the students,” he said in a statement yesterday.
He said the case was being investigated under Section 504 of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
The Perak education department had earlier instructed a school to prepare a full report concerning one of its teachers who allegedly posted the offensive remarks.