PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA - A MALAYSIAN policeman who has been suspended from his duties, was charged in court here on Friday with raping a student and forcing her to perform oral sex on him in a police station.

Jamil Abdul Sah, 27, of Damansara, pleaded not guilty to both charges.

He is alleged to have committed the offences on the 17-year-old girl in a room at the Putra Heights police station between 6am and 7am on June 18.

If convicted, he could be jailed up to 50 years and whipped for both offences.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Nor Shamsinar Mohamad asked the court to deny bail on the grounds that he could disturb the victim and tamper with evidence.

Jamil who has been a cop since June 2001 was suspended from his duties on June 23.

Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo, who held a watching brief for the victim, supported the prosecution's argument to deny bail saying that the girl was psychological depressed.

'If a policeman dares to rape a victim in a police station, he might try to threaten her outside,' he said.

Mr Gobind Singh said the victim had lodged a police report on June 22 saying that she was threatened by the accused during the incident.

'The accused told her not to be afraid as there were too many woman like her that he had seen before. After the incident, the accused even called her and invited her to go to his house, ' he said.

He said his client's family was afraid as the case involved a policeman and asked the court to consider public interest and gravity of the offences.

'Being suspended from duty is not an issue, in fact it is worse as he can do a variety of other things now,' he contended.

Judge Balqis set the bail at RM15,000 and set Oct 22 for trial.

The judge also ordered the accused not to contact the victim through his friends or agents or on his own.

She also asked him to surrender his passport to court.

It was reported that the teenager and her boyfriend were allegedly taken to the station after her boyfriend did not have a licence to ride a motorcycle. -- The Star/ANN.