3 pembekal ayam tak sembelih disaman

PETIKAN AKHBAR BERITA HARIAN

20 FEBRUARI 2008 

3 pembekal ayam tak sembelih disaman
Oleh Fatin Hafizah Mohd Shahar

KUALA LUMPUR: Timbalan Pengarah Jabatan Kebudayaan, Kesenian, Pelancongan dan Sukan, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), Zainuddin Md Zin, semalam memfailkan kira-kira RM5 juta terhadap tiga pembekal dan penjual ayam, termasuk Tesco Stores (Malaya) Sdn Bhd kerana menjual ayam yang tidak disembelih.

Zainuddin, 55, menamakan Perak Duck Food Industries Sdn Bhd, CKL Marketing Sdn Bhd dan Tesco sebagai defendan pertama, kedua dan ketiga dalam saman yang difailkan menerusi Tetuan M K Othman & Co di Pejabat Pendaftaran Mahkamah Tinggi Jalan Duta, di sini.

Beliau dalam tuntutannya memohon ganti rugi khas, termasuk kos pembelian ayam, kos perbelanjaan makan dan minum bagi pertemuannya dengan wakil dari Perak Duck Food Industries Sdn Bhd dan kos bagi menghadiri pemeriksaan di Bahagian Hab Halal Jabatan Agama Islam Malaysia (Jakim) di Cyberjaya.

Selain itu, beliau juga menuntut menghadiri pemeriksaan di Persatuan Pengguna Islam (PPIM) di Keramat di sini dan kos untuk menghadiri pemeriksaan di Jabatan Agama Islam Perak di Ipoh yang semuanya bernilai RM1,375.77.

Zainuddin juga memohon defendan untuk membayar ganti rugi am, ganti rugi teruk dan ganti rugi teladan yang bernilai RM5 juta kerana defendan pertama dan kedua berlaku khianat dengan membekalkan makanan berlogo halal kepada semua umat Islam.

Di samping itu, beliau turut memohon mahkamah untuk menghalang ketiga-tiga defendan untuk menjual, mengedar, memasar atau menyebabkan produk itu berada di pasaran.

Plaintif juga meminta mahkamah mengarahkan ketiga-tiga defendan memohon maaf kepada semua umat Islam di negara ini berterusan selama tiga hari di muka hadapan akhbar utama bahasa Melayu dengan menanggung segala kos perbelanjaan.

Dalam writ saman berkenaan, beliau juga mendakwa defendan pertama gagal memastikan keadaan ayam yang dihasilkan tidak disembelih mengikut Syara’ dan tidak prihatin serta sensitif kepada kehendak umat Islam.

Defendan kedua pula didakwa secara cuai menyelia pengeluaran produk yang berlogo halal pada bungkusan itu, manakala defendan ketiga gagal melakukan sebarang pemeriksaan bagi memastikan keselamatan halal produk itu sebelum dipasarkan.

“Pada 28 Oktober tahun lalu saya membeli tiga ayam selasih di Tesco dan mendapati ayam yang dilabelkan logo halal tidak disembelih dengan betul mengikut prosedur penyembelihan.

“Sangkaan saya ternyata betul apabila PPIM mengesahkan ayam yang dibeli tidak halal kerana urat leher ayam yang disembelih itu tidak putus,” katanya.


2) PETIKAN NEW STRATS TIMES

Hypermart sued over non-halal chickens
By : A. Hafiz Yatim

KUALA LUMPUR: A civil servant filed a RM5 million negligence suit against two companies and a hypermarket after discovering two out of three black chickens he bought were not halal.

Zainuddin Md Zin, 55, who is City Hall Culture, Arts, Tourism and Sports department deputy director named Perak Duck Food Industries Sdn Bhd, CKL Marketing Sdn Bhd and Tesco Stores (M) Sdn Bhd as defendants.

He filed the suit through the firm M.K. Othman and Co at the High Court registry yesterday.

In his statement of claim, Zainuddin alleged he bought the three chickens with the halal logo from Tesco Extra Cheras store about 6pm on Oct 28 last year.

The chicken was produced by Perak Duck and marketed by CKL Marketing.
He claimed that the next day while trying to cook the chicken, he found two chickens did not have their jugular veins and trachea properly severed.

Zainuddin informed CKL Marketing which promised to look into the matter and he decided to keep the chicken in the refrigerator.

On Oct 31, he and his wife met two CKL Marketing officers who verified that the two chickens were not slaughtered according to Islamic rites.

Zainuddin claimed he contacted a Tesco official who said it was the responsibility of the supplier.

Not satisfied, he reported the matter to the Halal Hub division of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia and an officer verified that the two chickens were not slaughtered according to Islamic rites.

Zainuddin claimed that following his complaints, the Halal Research Division of the Perak Islamic Department conducted a raid on Nov 30, and found that the chickens were not being slaughtered according to Islamic rites.

He claimed that the three defendants were negligent and failed to consider the sensitivities of Muslims.

He is seeking RM1,375.77 in special damages and RM5 million in general, aggravated and exemplary damages.

Zainuddin is also seeking an injunction preventing the defendants from producing, distributing and marketing non-halal products and a public apology to be published in all newspapers.