BUKIT MERTAJAM: Padang Serai MP N. Gobalakrishnan, two of his sons and a Parti Keadilan Rakyat supporter, who had been detained by police for obstructing buses on Tuesday, were released on police bail yesterday.

The men were released at 2pm.

State police chief Datuk Ayub Yacob said investigations showed there was no basis to Gobalakrishnan’s claim that the buses were transporting “phantom” voters to the Permatang Pauh by-election.

He said the passengers were actually election workers of a political party and the buses were supposed to have taken them home.

On another matter, Ayub said police had received 117 reports during the by-election period and had opened investigations into 43 cases involving illegal assembly, threats and obstruction of public servants.

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