Police ‘sabotaged’ habeas corpus hearing, claims detainee’s lawyer

KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyers representing K Selvach Santhiran, a witness who implicated police in the R Gunasegaran death-in-custody inquest, today alleged that police ‘sabotaged’ a habeas corpus hearing to free him. Farida Mohammad, one of his counsels from the Lawyers for Liberty civil group, said before the court could hear their habeas corpus application yesterday, police…