KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — Police recorded the statements of several employees of BFM this morning for the investigation ordered by the Inspector-General of Police into the radio station’s video on hudud.

A lawyer representing the staff members, Joshua Tay, said the police began interviewing the employees at 10am today.

“We are heading there now. We don’t know how long it will take for their statements to be recorded. I think some of the BFM management team will be there as well,” Tay was quoted as saying by news portal The Malaysian Insider.

The radio station’s spokesman, Ezra Zaid, yesterday said BFM will cooperate with relevant authorities on the matter, as they have “consistently done with the past”.

English language daily New Straits Times yesterday reported IGP Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar as saying the police will investigate the producers and presenter of BFM show Kupas, following a public uproar over a recent video clip questioning the implementation of hudud in Kelantan.

He said the video’s creators as well as its presenter, Aisyah Tajuddin, will be called up for questioning under Section 298 of the Penal Code.

Aisyah has reportedly received numerous death and rape threats on various online platforms, following outrage over a video titled “Hudud Isi Periuk Nasi? (Kupas)” (Does hudud fill our rice bowls?) that was posted on BFM’s website and YouTube channel on Thursday. Khalid had said the police will also investigate those who have made the threats as well.

In the video, Aisyah points out that even as Kelantan is attempting to implement hudud, the east coast state is facing other problems like its homeless flood victims, as well as increasing drug and divorce cases.

BFM later removed the clip and apologised for any offence caused, saying that it was not meant to question the “desirability” of the Islamic penal code, but that it was a satirical commentary on whether hudud’s implementation should be Kelantan’s top priority in light of economic issues and problems faced by flood victims.