PETALING JAYA, July 28 — Anti-crime activist R. Sri Sanjeevan is in critical condition after being shot several times by two men on a motorcycle yesterday in Jempol, Negri Sembilan.
The head of the MyWatch crime watchdog, who hit the news recently by shining the spotlight on police misconduct, was shot by a man riding pillion on a motorcycle that pulled up beside his silver BMW when he wound down his window to smoke a cigarette while at a junction near Taman Awana Indah at about 4.30pm yesterday, several news portals reported.
“Two assailants on a red motorcycle pulled up next to him. The pillion rider then fired a shot at Sanjeevan’s right rib,” Jempol police chief Supt Hamzah Alias was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times.
Sanjeevan managed to drive off despite being badly injured, leaving his assailants behind, but stopped some 300 metres from the scene where his friend who was in the car with him, Ramesh Balakrishnan, 35, took over the wheel to take the victim to Jempol Hospital, the newspaper reported Hamzah as saying.
The police have classified the case under section 307 of the Penal Code for attempted murder but have so far got no leads or suspects, the paper reported, citing Hamzah.
The state police chief said a special task force had been formed to investigate the case.
Sanjeevan was later reported to have been rushed to the Kuala Pilah Hospital for surgery, according to The Star Online news portal.
He is said to be in a stable condition but is not yet out of the woods.
In an interview with a news portal earlier this year, the crime buster claimed to have received death threats from a man he suspected was with the police force but working in cahoots with illegal gambling syndicates in Negri Sembilan.
He made a similar allegation yesterday morning on his Twitter account, among the last messages he posted before getting shot.
“A @PDRMsia cop told some syndicate fellow that he’ll get them firearm & told them to fire few shots at my house to scare me/family!” he tweeted in @SanjeevanSS.
