The Star has reported that Malaysia Today’s Editor, Raja Petra Kamarudin has been arrested this morning under Section 500 of the Penal Code for criminal defamation, and will be bring to Jalan Duta Courts to be charged.

The charge was being made over his June 18 statutory declaration on the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu.In the declaration, Raja Petra claimed to have knowledge that two lieutenant-colonels and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Najib Tun Razak’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor were present when Altantuya’s body was blown up on Oct 19, 2006.

UPDATE : 4.45 pm

Raja Petra Kamarudin was released on bail at 3.45pm Thursday.He was earlier charged at the Jalan Duta magistrate’s court here for defaming Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Raja Petra refused to enter a plea. He was released on RM2,000 bail after his wife Marina Lee signed the papers at 3.05pm.