SHAH ALAM, May 11 — Aminulrasyid Amzah’s family wants the authorities to apologise for wrongfully accusing the 14-year-old of being a criminal, saying that yesterday’s charging of police Corporal Jenain Subi proved the inaccuracy of the allegation.

Aminulrasyid’s uncle, Kamarudin Hassan, said today that the family wants a direct apology from either Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar or the Home Ministry for tainting the schoolboy’s name.

Kamarudin said the family also wants the statement that a weapon was found in the vehicle to be retracted.

“We appreciate and thank the authorities for their speedy action in charging the police corporal but we want Aminul’s name to be cleared.

“Since this incident occurred, the IGP and everyone else never once apologised to us for calling Aminul a robber and saying that they had found a weapon in his car.

“If they can bring the police corporal to court, it shows that Aminul was not a suspected criminal as claimed,” he said in a press conference at the family home on Jalan Makyong, Section 11 here this afternoon.

Kamarudin added that the apology should be made to Aminulrasyid’s mother Norsiah Mohamad, his family as a whole and even the boy’s school.

Jenaini, 48, claimed trial to shooting Aminulrasyid yesterday after he was charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 of the Penal Code. The charge carries a maximum jail term of 20 years upon conviction.

Aminulrasyid was shot dead by police after a 6km chase on April 26 after, as claimed by the police, allegedly reversing and ramming his vehicle into policemen in Section 11, Shah Alam.

The police had also claimed that Aminulrasyid was a robbery suspect, and that a parang was found in the vehicle he was driving.

Kamarudin also argued that the family had been kept in the dark over the status of the investigation into Aminulrasyid’s shooting and demanded that the authorities provide them with better information.

“We want to know about the current process of the investigation in this case... what truly happened? The CPO says that Aminul reversed his car into the police and that there was a parang in the car. But yet, the corporal was charged, and this shows that some wrong was indeed committed by the police when they opened fire.”

Aminulrasyid’s family had complained yesterday that they had not been duly informed that Jenain was to be charged in court.

The family’s lawyer N. Surendran, who was also present at the press conference, concurred with Kamarudin, and said that by charging Jenain, it was clear that Aminulrasyid, who was with his friend Azamuddin Omar, 15, in the car on the day of the incident, had not reversed into the police or endangered them in any way.

“If it is true that they had endangered the police, they should not have charged Jenain. The fact that they charged him proves that there was no basis for the earlier allegations made against Aminul. It proves that he did not endanger them and that there was no parang in the car,” he said.

Surendran also called for an immediate investigation to be made over the “false statements” made by the police, under chapter 11 of the Penal Code.

“Section 11 states that hindering the course of public justice is an offence and, in this case, giving or disseminating false information during the course of a criminal investigation is an offence. The police are the ones who committed this and the fact that they repeatedly made their statements has made it even worse,” he said.

When asked if the family would seek further legal redress and press charges against the authorities if they failed to apologise, Surendran said:

“We hope it will not come to that. We hope good sense will prevail and they (the police) will do the right thing and set things right. The fact remains that a tragedy has happened and we cannot bring the boy back. However, why does the family have to fight so hard for justice when it was the police themselves who shot the boy in the first place?” he said.

Surendran also said that the three other police officers who were present in the car with Jenain should also be brought to book for aiding and abetting in the shooting.

“One police officer has been charged but we know that there were four of them in the car. There is a clear case of aiding and abetting the act. We are quite surprised that there were no other charges made although the Attorney-General has said that they will charge as warranted. One would think that if this corporal was charged, the others would be charged too,” he said.