Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar has chided Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah for holding a bullet that she received as a death threat.

He said her action contaminated the evidence with her own fingerprints.

“Next time if she finds something, don’t hold the bullet and show it around. Keep it, we want to lift fingerprints from it.

“She went ahead to hold (the bullet) and show it around, so it is her fingerprints we would find. Don’t disturb it, and leave it to us to investigate. Don’t destroy the evidence.

“Now, what are we supposed to look for? It is her fingerprints that we would get,” he told a press conference this morning.