Putrajaya Hospital’s psychiatric department head Dr Azizul Awaluddin is required to come to the Sessions Court in Putrajaya on March 27, to testify in the trial of Muhdalena Ahmad who is facing four charges, including possession of a sword.

Counsel M Visvanathan, who is representing Muhdalena, applied to subpoena Dr Azizul to attend court to certify that psychiatrist Umi Adzlin Silim who had examined Muhdalena, was unable to come to the court to give her evidence because she was currently undergoing training in Melbourne, Australia.

Umi Adzlin is said to have gone for training on Feb 17, this year and is only expected to return to Malaysia on Nov 30, this year.

Visvanathan is seeking to admit as evidence two psychiatric reports made by Umi Adzlin who had treated Muhdalena when she was warded at the Putrajaya Hospital in July 2012.

Judge Mohamed Kamil Nizam granted the application and made an order for Dr Azizul to be present in court on the next trial date.

Mohamed Kamil also fixed the same date to hear submissions from the prosecution and defence on whether Umi Adzlin’s reports could be admitted as evidence through Dr Azizul under Section 32 (1) (b) of the Evidence Act 1950.

On Jan 10 this year, Muhdalena, 29, was ordered by the Sessions Court to enter her defence on the four charges under the Penal Code, the Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act 1958 and the Restricted Area and Prohibited Places Act 1959.

She is accused of criminal intimidation with intent to cause grievous hurt to an auxiliary police personnel, Lance Corporal Ridzuan Megat Ahmad, in the vicinity of Complex B of the Prime Minister’s Department on July 9, 2012.

Muhdalena is also charged with possession of a weapon (sword) at the same place and time.

For the charges under the Restricted Area and Prohibited Places Act, she is alleged to have disobeyed Ridzuan’s orders to lay down the sword and for failing to abide by a minister’s order to obtain a pass or permit before entering the premises.

Muhdalena and Khalil Afendi Abd Hamid, 47, were alleged to have run amok at the complex and were shot. Khalil Afendi died due to injuries sustained in the incident.

- Bernama