PETALING JAYA, April 29 — The couple who beat and left their Indonesian maid, Norfia Linda, 23, for dead in the Ulu Yam forest in Hulu Selangor, is expected to be charged on Monday. 

Gombak district police chief ACP Ali Ahmad said police have wrapped up investigations and their papers have been submitted to the deputy public prosecutor yesterday.

“We are now just waiting for further action. The male suspect who is a goverment servant is still under remand till Friday,” he told Malay Mail. 

On Tuesday, Malay Mail front-paged the horror that Norfia endured after her employers left her overnight in the jungle with her hands tied and face covered on April 18.

Norfia from Lombok, East Java, was rescued the following morning by an orang asli who rushed her to a clinic in Kuala Kubu Baru.

Indonesian deputy chief of mission Hermono said Norfia had her finger broken and suffered bruises all over her body.

She is currently under the care of the Indonesian embassy after receiving treatment from the Selayang hospital. 

Ali said her employers, a couple in the 30s, were arrested on the day she was found, but the wife was granted police bail as she has a six-month-old baby to care for.

Hermono said Norfia, who entered Malaysia illegally through a middleman, will only be sent home once the couple is charged in court 

Norfia had been here for a month and her torture began in the fourth week. She claimed her employers beat her with a steel rod and sharp objects.

In an unrelated development, Bersih 2.0 chief Maria Chin Abdullah and secretariat officer Mandeep Singh were arrested when they were called to the Dang Wangi Police headquarters yesterday but was released after they posted bail.

The duo are being investigated for unlawful assembly under section 143 of the Penal Code during the March 28 #Kita Lawan rally in Kuala Lumpur.

Maria told reporters outside the headquarters: “ We did not answer their (police) questions and we told them we will answer in court.”

Maria also said she would still be participating in the upcoming anti-Goods and Services Tax (GST) rally on Friday even though it has been deemed illegal by the authorities.