The investigating officer (IO) behind the enforced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh never commented that the incident looked like a police operation, the government’s counsel told the civil court.

Senior federal counsel Nurul Farhana Khalid told this to the High Court in Kuala Lumpur which today was hearing a lawsuit by the missing man’s family against the government and police over his abduction in 2017.

“My instruction is that (Inspector) Ali (Basra Abu Bakar) never made a comment that the incident looked like a...