Bukit Gelugor MP Ramkarpal Singh has questioned why the police have to refer the case of Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa purportedly flouting the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP) to the attorney-general (AG), instead of slapping him with a compound.

Ramkarpal labelled Kuala Lumpur police chief Saiful Azly Kamaruddin's statement on the move to do so as "absolute nonsense" and "smacks of double standards".

"Why is Annuar’s case so different to the point that it needs to go all the way up to the AG?...