KUALA LUMPUR: A former police inspector was ordered to pay RM820,000 to two Mongolian women for having non-consensual intercourse at a hotel four years ago.
High Court Judge Dr John Lee Kien How @ Mohammad Johan Lee handed down the award after allowing the civil lawsuit filed by the women against Hazrul Hisham Ghazali today.
The term "non-consensual sexual intercourse" is used for civil court cases, whereas "rape" is reserved for criminal court cases.
The judge ruled that Hazrul Hisham failed to refute the testimony of the two women as he failed to attend the court hearing last year to testify.
"The women testified they met Hazrul Hisham when they were stopped at a roadblock during a Covid-19 movement control order (MCO) in Petaling Jaya on the night of April 10, 2020.
"Both women were ordered to exit their car and were taken to a nearby police tent before Hazrul Hisham brought them to separate hotel rooms.
"Hazrul Hisham engaged in non-consensual intercourse with both plaintiffs, at least five times with one woman and twice with the other between April 10 and 11, 2020.
"In summary, after considering the unchallenged and undisputed witness testimony and arguments, I find that the plaintiffs have proven their case on the balance of probabilities," the court said .
The court then ordered Hazrul Hisham to pay RM460,000 and RM360,000 to the two women, respectively.
On April 30, Hazrul Hisham was charged at the Petaling Jaya's Sessions Court with eight counts of rape and attempt to molest two Mongolian women in a hotel.
According to charge sheets, he was alleged to have raped two Mongolian women aged between 20 and 36 in two different rooms at a boutique hotel near here between 12.30am and 11am on April 11.
Hazrul Hisham, who was attached to the Petaling Jaya police headquarters, was also alleged to have used criminal force on one of the victims with the intent to outrage her modesty near a roadblock at the New Pantai Expressway (NPE) on the same day.
The 34-year-old man was also charged with human trafficking involving the same women.
