GEORGE TOWN: Timely intervention by Tanjung Malim member of parliament Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan saved a 19-year-old woman from the clutches of a vice syndicate on Thursday.
Ong bumped into the woman while waiting for his friend at the Slim River rest and recreation area along the North-South Expressway.
"I was waiting in my car when I noticed the woman having an argument with a man inside a car before running towards me," Ong told the New Straits Times yesterday.
He said the woman told him that she was abducted by the man in Penang and brought to a hotel in Alor Star where she was allegedly raped.
"The man then approached me and tried to explain that she was his friend, but I did not believe him and called the police," he said, adding that police took both the woman and the man away for investigations.
State police chief Datuk Ayub Yaakub said police detained another man. He said the woman was with a female companion in a hotel in Jalan Patani here when two men, claiming to be policemen, confronted them.
"The woman was taken to another hotel in Alor Star where she was allegedly raped," he said, adding that the girl was to be driven to Kuala Lumpur on the same day when she bumped into Ong.
After questioning the man she was with, police nabbed a 19-year-old youth in Seri Manjung, Perak, at 3am yesterday.
The first suspect, he said, was wanted by the police for various crimes, including car theft and break-ins.
Ayub also revealed that the woman, who is from Kelantan, was detained by police, along with a group of teenagers reported missing by their parents earlier this year.
"She has since been brought back to Penang and sent to Penang Hospital for a medical check-up."
The two suspects have been remanded.
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