Perikatan Nasional has backed Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim's remark that the police should continue with their investigation into the allegation that a bodyguard of a royal assaulted a disabled person.

Opposition chief whip Takiyuddin Hassan said unlike in a civil case, which can be stopped and settled at any point upon agreement between the parties involved, criminal cases, especially those which fall under the Penal Code, should be...