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Jovina Choi, the passenger involved in an altercation with a Go-Jek driver Abang Kamaruzzaman last Tuesday is thinking of lodging a police report against him!
In a Skype interview with the state media on Sunday night, Jovina, who is currently in Taiwan said she had not had the chance to make a police report as she left for Taiwan shortly after the incident, adding she is “thinking about it”.
Jovina was heard on video accusing Abang of taking her “hostage” and “kidnapping” her. She made a phone call during the trip to her mother who was overheard on loudspeaker threatening Abang saying
“You have no right to take her hostage…You are causing her to lose her freedom”.
Under Section 339 of the Penal code:
“Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person, so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person.”
The crime is punished with “imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to $500, or with both.”
Abang is currently under investigation by the Land Transport Authority and is scheduled to go for an interview on 7 February.
Under the Road Traffic Act, disclosing, or causing or allowing to be disclosed, a visual recording made of any person or thing, or the occurrence of any incident, within a chauffeured private hire car or taxi shall be punished with a fine of $500 or demerit points of 21 which will cause his Private-Hired Vehicle (PHV) licence to be revoked.
In a Skype interview with the state media on Sunday night, Jovina, who is currently in Taiwan said she had not had the chance to make a police report as she left for Taiwan shortly after the incident, adding she is “thinking about it”.
Jovina was heard on video accusing Abang of taking her “hostage” and “kidnapping” her. She made a phone call during the trip to her mother who was overheard on loudspeaker threatening Abang saying
“You have no right to take her hostage…You are causing her to lose her freedom”.
Under Section 339 of the Penal code:
“Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person, so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person.”
The crime is punished with “imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to $500, or with both.”
Abang is currently under investigation by the Land Transport Authority and is scheduled to go for an interview on 7 February.
Under the Road Traffic Act, disclosing, or causing or allowing to be disclosed, a visual recording made of any person or thing, or the occurrence of any incident, within a chauffeured private hire car or taxi shall be punished with a fine of $500 or demerit points of 21 which will cause his Private-Hired Vehicle (PHV) licence to be revoked.
