Kuala Lampur, April 4 -- Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar today threatened legal action against human rights advocacy group Citizens Against Enforced Disappearances (Caged) whom he accused of making malicious and defamatory statements against him.

The former inspector-general of police has consistently stuck to his guns that he did not provide false testimony to the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) during its 18-month public inquiry on the disappearances of Pastor Raymond Koh and Perlis Hope founder Amri Che Mat.

"I find that Caged's remark, blindly accusing me of lying to the nation, and I believe that the NGO is accusing me of this, by way of my testimony to the Suhakam inquiry panelists, to be malicious and defamatory.

"In my d...