As a start, Malaysia Today Raja Petra Kamarudin unveiled the medical report which shows no evidence that the accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan was sodomised.

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was alleged to sodomise his aide said the leaked medical report confirmed that the sodomy allegation made against him was baseless and politically motivated.

He also expressed his concern for doctor Mohamed Osman, whose whereabouts are unknown at the moment as he has taken leave since last week.

At the same time, Anwar’s lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah said the leak of the medical report is "regrettable", however the report’s contents are admissible evidence in court regardless of how they were exposed.

The courts have always taken the position that evidence that is relevant is admissible even though it has been wrongly exposed," […]

"The situation now is that everybody knows about this medical report and while an invasion of doctor-patient confidentiality has occurred, it’s regrettable, but you cannot run away from the fact that it’s now very clear that there is no sodomy involved."

Now, here comes the statement from the Government’s side when the Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar urged the police to wrap up their investigations as soon as possible in view of high political tensions and unsettled foreign investors besides dismissed any talk of a government conspiracy.

As a result, the Deputy IGP Ismail Omar who was under pressure to provide answers to so many uncertainties revolving around the sodomy allegation and conveniently put the blame on internet/blogs in which he accused the leaked medical report was intended solely to skew public perception and undermine the police.

"The police want to state categorically that there is no iota of truth in the allegations made in the aforementioned article. At no time during the course of this investigation did the police detain a doctor or force him to fabricate evidence against the suspect," he said.

The harder they try, the more confused the public is, hence the spiraling effect - more conspiracy theories and obviously, going to imply badly on the police force as Anwar has since accused the police of going after him without any concrete proof and without him seeing the original police report lodged by the accuser.

As of now, many questions remain unanswered: If it’s true that Saiful aide didn’t present any physical signs of injury at the hospital, then on what basis was the police report filed? If the aide went to a government hospital to get a second opinion — as required under the law in sodomy cases, and as the first doctor suggested — what did that second doctor see? And why is Saiful still formally under police protection?

Having said all that, it’s quite amusing when the Deputy IGP is cocksure that the police shall not in any way be influenced or intimidated by any party to avert investigation of this case, that the police were conducting the investigation professionally and expeditiously, that the police are conscious of the fact that this case has to be handled fairly and impartially, that ….?

Hence the laughing stock.

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