A Taipei court is to decide whether actors Hsiu Chieh-kai (修杰楷) and Wang Po-chieh (王柏傑) are to be disciplined for their involvement in a KTV fight that might have contravened the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法), Taipei police said yesterday.
Police said that Hsiu and Wang were released after being questioned about the fight yesterday morning and that the case has been sent to the Taipei District Court Summary Division, which would decide if penalties should be assessed.
Police received a report at about 4:15am that people were fighting at a KTV on Zhongxiao E Road in Taipei’s Daan District (大安).
Photo: screen grab from Wang Po-chieh’s Instragam account
After arriving at the scene, police officers found that Wang and Hsiu had visited the KTV with their friend, surnamed Lin (林), and that Lin had an argument in the elevator with a man surnamed Chen (陳), whom the three had never met before.
Chen later went to the room being used by Hsiu, Wang and Lin and punched Lin, while Hsiu and Wang suffered minor injuries while trying to restrain Chen, police said.
After questioning the parties involved, Hsiu, Wang and Lin, as well as Chen and another person, decided not to press any charges.
Suspecting a breach of the Social Order Maintenance Act, police said they turned the case over to the Taipei District Court to decide how to handle it.
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