Kugan’s family members wail as his casket is lowered into the ground (file pic) WHILE I am a staunch supporter of the Internal Security Act (ISA), deaths in police custody are not my cup of tea either. Furthermore, attempts to cover up such deaths so stupidly also make me slap my forehead and wonder just […]
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9 April D-day in Altantuya murder case (Updated)
(Updated 7.11pm) SHAH ALAM, 17 Feb 2009: The fate of two Special Action Force (UTK) police officers accused of murdering Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu will be known on 9 April. Shah Alam High Court judge Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin set the date after hearing submissions from all the parties at the end of the […]
Inquest into Sujatha’s death starts 16 March
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Feb 2009: The inquest into the death of local actress K Sujatha has been fixed for three days beginning 16 March. Magistrate Mohd Fauzi Che Abu who would act as the coroner set the date here today after Deputy Public Prosecutor Geethan Ram Vincent said he would call seven to eight witnesses. […]
Man watching ‘kavadi’ procession killed
IPOH, 10 Feb 2009: A man watching a ‘kavadi’ procession with his two young boys was slashed to death in Medan Kidd early this morning. Ipoh police district chief, ACP Azisman Alias, said S Savarimuthu, 37, from Taman Desa Pakatan here had serious head and chest injuries and died on the way to the Raja […]
Cops pick up four over student’s murder
PORT DICKSON, 2 Feb 2009: Police have arrested three men and a woman to facilitate investigations into the abduction of a college student whose body was found near a Sua Betong plantation here yesterday. Negeri Sembilan police chief SAC I Datuk Osman Salleh said the woman and one of the male suspects were foreign nationals. […]
Kugan’s final journey
By Deborah Loh and Zedeck Siew
Corrected on 28 Jan 2009 at 11.30pm IT was not an ordinary death, and so it was not an ordinary funeral. A Kugan’s funeral on 28 Jan 2009 drew hundreds of people who followed his body in a procession from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) across Petaling Jaya to Puchong Batu 14, where he […]
Teenager jailed eight years for killing Malaysian
MELBOURNE, 28 Jan 2009: An Ethiopian migrant who viciously bashed a Malaysian father of four to death with a full bottle of wine in a random attack was today jailed for eight years. The 16-year-old attacker, identified only as AO, had attacked Lim Per Leong, 45, in a Springvale park as he was walking home […]
Dep ministers in mortuary case may face action
JOHOR BARU, 25 Jan 2009: Two deputy ministers are likely to face action if they are found to have broken the law in the incident where a crowd raided the mortuary of Serdang Hospital in Selangor on 20 Jan, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. Datuk K Devamany and Senator T Murugiah, […]
Bar wants independent investigation
By N Shashi KalaKUALA LUMPUR, 23 Jan 2009: The Bar Council has called for prompt and serious action by the authorities, including an immediate and thorough investigation into the death of police detainee A Kugan, preferably by an independent committee. “We are shocked and appalled that yet another young man has died in police custody,” Bar president Datuk […]
Sirul fails to get access to statement
SHAH ALAM, 22 Jan 2009: The High Court today denied Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar’s request for access to DSP Musa Safri’s witness statement. Justice Datuk Zaki Md Yasin said that when statements under Section 112 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) were excluded from the documents to be delivered before the trial’s commencement, the same […]
