u mean Subash Anandan the famous criminal lawyer?
I thought he is a singaporean?
Why he got so complicated background can become famous lawyer?
from:
http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/SelectCommittee/resource/pdf/1986/19861016_BIL_FULL.pdf
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
10 OCT 86 - Witness: Mr Subhas Anandan (cont.)
The Prime Minister (cont.)
1451. So he left before they could ask him what he was doing?
--- Yes, Sir.
1452.
You are stateless, aren't you? ---
Yes, Sir.
1453.
You like to be a citizen? ---
Yes, Sir.
1454.
You know a citizen has to be loyal to Singapore and not undermine its institutions? --- I know that. I
think I will do both.
1455.
And you won't be running around? ---
With pro-communists, no. I think I have stopped it a long time ago.
1456.
You have stopped it.
You have also stopped your association with the Sembawang Black Eagle Gang? --- I was never associated with that gang, Sir,
even though I am classified as the head of that gang, I was never.
1457.
You were not? --- I challenge that, Sir.
1458.
What were you doing with them then? --- I was doing nothing with them.
1459. You mean they were separate from you? --- They were separate. I was never. That allegation ----
1460.
You just had coffee with them? --- I did not have anything to do with them. Not even coffee or tea.
1461.
The revised charge against you is that you were not a hit member but an associate of the Black Eagle Gang? --- I will even
deny that, Sir.
1462.
Then you were involved in a case of settlement talk? ---
Settlement talk, yes.
1463. That is peaceful, it is all right? --- It is peaceful.
1464.
So when it comes to settlement, you appeared? --- Yes. Because not everybody is asked to settle a problem in Sembawang.
1465.
So when they hit you are not there? --- If they hit, I wouldn't know about it. I do not want to know about it.
1466. You will be absent? --- I wouldn't even have the knowledge, Sir.
1467. But on three occasions, hit occasions, you were there?
--- No, I was not there. Only one incident where nobody was hit anyway. I think the matter was fully investigated by the CPIB and
other police.
1468. CPIB? --- Yes, Sir. I was interviewed in prison by the CPIB and I think subsequently the CPIB charged the inspector.
1469.
But the inspector was acquitted? --- Yes. I think he had a good lawyer. I do not know.
1470. Not because he was innocent? --- I don't know, Sir.
1471.
That he rightly detained you? --- Sir, sometimes a person can be acquitted but, as some famous judge said, it does not
mean that he is innocent.
I still think I was framed up, with all due respect, by the police inspector concerned.
1472. By the police inspector concerned.
You have a chance, Mr Subhas, of earning credits for your citizenship. I always
believe that a man should have hope. Where do you stand now with regard to all these activities by Miss Teo Soh Lung, Tang Fong Har?
Do you know that they are active supporters of the Workers' Party?
Where do you stand vis-a-vis them? --- Sir, I will not be in favour of the Law Society being taken over by any political party. I would think that the Law Society should be there to protect the interest, to look after the welfare of the lawyers and comment on changes in the profession. But I will not be in favour of any political party taking over the Law Society or manipulating the Council.
1473. Or getting the President to issue statements on the
Newspaper and Printing Presses (Amendment) Act? --- Sir, I think this President is very hard to make him do something he doesn't want to do.
1474. We've just heard Miss Teo Soh Lung who got him to appear before the Commission of inquiry, issue a press statement? --- If he had allowed Miss Teo to make use of him, I am certainly disappointed at him because I was always under the impression he cannot be manipulated. He is such a strong man. Imagine Miss Teo manipulating him. I find it quite hard to believe.
1475. Yes. Unless he wanted to, he found it convenient? --- Unless he believed in what Miss Teo believed, I do not know.
1476. But do you believe that the Law Society was advancing the cause of lawyers by involving itself on the Newspaper and
Printing Presses (Amendment) Bill (NPPB)? --- Sir, I do not know about the Law Society's involvement other than they made a statement
criticizing or ---
1477. Carrying out a survey? --- Because I was not involved in the Sub-Committee or what the Council was doing on this.
1478.
I want you to clarify your position for your next application for citizenship? This is only half in jest, Mr Subhas Anandan? --- Sir, I believe that the Law Society, where possible,
should come to assist the legislator in passing of Bills, give their views. I think the Law Society should do it because they are a group of professional people.
1479. Assist as lawyers, qua lawyers? --- Yes, lawyers.
1480. Not qua politicians? --- Of course not.
1481. How to draft the Bill more professionally? --- Yes.
1482. More accurately? --- Yes.
1483. More effectively? --- Yes.
1484.
Not to say that the Government is embarking on legislation which is cruel, harsh, stop the freedom, free of flow information. What does the Law Society know about the free flow information? --- I think you should ask the Council.
1485. No, I am asking you whether you are in sympathy with those statements? --- No. As I said, Sir, I think the Law Society, the Council, should comment in the sense that they should be involved with the legislative process because we are a group of professional people.
1486. You've heard Mr Elias. You saw him on television? --- A little bit, yes.
1487. That he and none of his predecessors came out with statements against proposed Government le islation or pending Government legislation and therefore engaged the Government in political argument. What would you do? --- Sir, if I am not mistaken, the only thing that is objectionable to the Government is what the Council did, they published their statement to the press.
1488. That will do? --- But I believe the other councils too. They have commented about laws but ----
1489. I am talking now of you and your position vis-a-vis the Law Society. Would you approve of Mr Elias's position that such statement should not be published? --- I would not agree with him totally.
1490. Oh, you would want to take the Government on, you mean? --- I am not going to take anybody on. As I said, I am thinking of my next application. But I would like to say that I am in agreement with Mr Harry Elias on certain aspects of it. But I am not going to say that the present Council is totally wrong. I think they should be asked to explain why did they take that particular stand.
1491. Explain ---? --- Why did they do.
1492. They should be asked? --- Yes. They should be asked why should they. I have yet to know what is the reason that they published.
1493. You are a member of the Law Society. I think you should call an EGM and ask them. That will raise credit points? --- Maybe I will think about it.
1494. Good. Thank you? --- Much obliged.
Chairman
1495. Thank you very much. You may step down? --- Can I take it that I am released?
Chairman] Yes. Thank you.
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