DAP has slammed the summoning of Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali's teenage son over the Bersih 4 rally as selective persecution.

"DAP Selangor urges the Home Ministry to stop such selective harassment on Basheer Azmin, a 15-year-old schoolboy who is starting his final examinations in school this week.

"What were the police thinking?

"It has been two months since the Bersih rally and suddenly, out of the blue, is it merely a sheer coincidence that the police require Basheer’s attendance on the day of his final exams?" asked DAP Selangor chairperson and Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua in a statement.

He added the move to question Basheer also promotes the view that the police's actions are politically motivated.

Pua also questioned if police were going to probe each and every participant who had turned up for the Merdeka eve rally for free and fair elections and for the prime minister's resignation.

“Are the police going to summon up to 500,000 people who took part in the Bersih rally for investigations?

“Such high-handed police intervention does not assist in shaking off the perception that the police force is politically motivated and that the BN-led federal government is utilising its every machinery to oppress the federal opposition,” said Pua.

'Better to probe 1MDB'

Meanwhile Balakong assemblyperson Ng Tien Chee also condemned the police's move to call the MB's son in for questioning.

Police's limited resources should be better spent probing pending cases, such as alleged mismanagement of state investment firm 1MDB, he said.

"Police should focus their efforts on investigating the many unresolved crime cases," said Ng.

Otherwise, he said, the proposed Budget 2016 hike in allocation for the Home Ministry would go to waste.

Police issued a summons under Section 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code to the teenager over the rally that took place from Aug 29 to 30.

The boy was to present himself for questioning at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters today morning, but this has been postponed to a later date as he is sitting for school examinations.