Some 40 NGO representatives and activists have lodged police report against Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin over a poem the latter published on his Facebook account yesterday.

Among others, each of the highly similar reports accuse the mufti of making a seditious speech aimed at causing hatred by Muslims against Hindus.

The group’s spokesperson, P Raja Retinam, said Mohd Asri as a mufti should know better than to insult other religions, and the government should remove him from his post immediately...