The report of a doctor ruling out that Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan had been sodomised is an attempt to sabotage police investigations, said Deputy Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar.

He also stated that the report was aimed at confusing the public in relation to the sodomy allegation against PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim.

ismail omar police Ismail was commenting about the report which was published in Malaysiakini as well as in other blogs including Malaysia Today .

According to nstonline , he said the police are considering investigating a "news website and a blog over their reports."

However, Ismail declined to comment on the medical report itself, saying investigations were ongoing.

The deputy police chief also denied that Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid, the Pusrawi Hospital medical officer who examined Mohd Saiful on June 28, had been picked up by police.

"Mohamed Osman’s statement had been recorded by police earlier on in the investigation, as such, rumours circulating about his arrest by police are untrue," he was quoted as saying.

Mohamed Osman, a Burmese Muslim, is said to be on leave since last week.

Malaysiakini 's attempts to contact Ismail earlier for comments on the report proved futile while CID director Mohd Bakri Zinin refused to say anything beyond, "Call my deputy inspector-general (Ismail)."

Visited two hospitals

According to a copy of the two-page medical report obtained by Malaysiakini yesterday, Saiful went to the hospital complaining of 'tenesmus' - a medical term for difficulty and pain in passing motion.

He was examined by Mohamed Osman, the medical officer on duty.

The doctor said the patient had alleged he was assaulted by the intrusion of a piece of "plastic" in the anus.

Mohamed Osman, according to his medical report which was recorded at 2.14pm, found "zero active bleeding", "zero ulcer or pus", "zero tear and scar" in Saiful's anus.

At 6pm on that day, Saiful, 23, went to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for his second medical examination. He subsequently lodged a police report against Anwar Ibrahim at the police beat at the hospital.

A senior Pusrawi official told Malaysiakini this morning that the hospital had launched an internal investigation on how Saiful's medical report was leaked, which is widely considered as a major infringement of patient privacy.