KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 2: Showing no sign of remorse. Malaysia's former police chief testified Tuesday that he repeatedly struck ousted Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in jail, but denied acting under orders from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, reports AP.

"I slapped him both on the left and right. He fell."’said Abdul Rahim Noor, reading from a prepared statement before a panel probing the police violence on the night of Anwar's arrest.

"Within that split second. I cannot remember whether 1 delivered other physical acts on

him," he said.

Abdul Rahim, who quit as inspector general of police in January amid speculation that he was Anwar's assailant, told the panel that he lost his tern per after Anwar called him "the father of dogs." "I lost my cool. I lost my sense of control," Abdul Rahim said from the witness stand in a matter-of-fact voice describing the. events in a police lock up.

Anwar. 51. has testified that the former chief may have been acting under orders from Mahathir. who until January also . served as Malaysia's home minister. Anwar denied using abu-

sive words against his captors the night he was beaten.

Ori Tuesday, Abdul Rahim told the panel. "1 wish to make it clear that my acts as referred to were not prompted, abetted, advised, directed, assisted by anyone else. Not even by my police Officers. not even the prime minister."

On Sunday, the former top police official acknowledged through his lawyer that he punched and slapped Anwar on Sept 20. after Anwar was arrested for leading a demonstration of tens of thousand of people demanding Mahathir’s resignation.