PETALING JAYA: The family of C Sugumaran has declined to participate in the inquest called by the attorney-general to determine the security guard’s cause of death. According to lawyers N Surendran and Latheefah Koya, the family is vexed that Selangor police Tun Hisan Tun Majid had rejected the call to initiate a murder investigation. Describing…
Lawyers for Liberty is shocked and appalled by the death of C.Sugumaran, 40 – all the more shocking and appalling since he was publicly beaten to death while still handcuffed. Despite public outcry, the police have claimed he died from a heart attack and have now proposed that a judicial inquest be set up to…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 — The family of C. Sugumaran has rejected suggestions to hold an inquest into last week’s death of the security guard and will press for a murder investigation instead, says lawyer N. Surendran. The PKR vice-president said in a text message to The Malaysian Insider that this was because the Sugumaran’s next of…
KAJANG, Jan 24 — The police have denied beating a security guard yesterday to death, pointing out that a post-mortem today revealed that he had died of a heart attack. Three eyewitnesses alleged earlier today that four policemen had handcuffed and then assaulted 39-year-old C. Sugumaran together with a mob of more than 20…
SERDANG, Jan 24 — A security guard was chased down yesterday by four policemen who subsequently handcuffed and beat him to death together with a mob of more than 20 people in Hulu Langat yesterday, eyewitnesses alleged today. It is unclear why policemen were trying to apprehend 40-year-old C. Sugumaran. He was found naked…
PETALING JAYA: Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) have accused Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and the National Registration Department (NRD) of failing to protect stateless Indians in the country. In a press statement yesterday, LFL co-founder and adviser, Eric Paulsen, said Najib was ultimately responsible for the problem as the NRD is a department under the…
THE policeman taking care of death-in-custody victim A. Kugan in 2009 told the High Court yesterday he was “not sure” why he did not report colleague V. Navindran’s alleged assault on the victim to his superiors even after Kugan’s death in a police lock-up. Mohd Haizan Hamid, the lance-corporal who claimed to have witnessed Navindran beating…
Lawyers for Liberty views with disbelief Special Implementation Taskforce chairman Siva Subramaniam’s statement reported in Free Malaysia Today (“Ministry adds on to stateless problem”, 23 January 2013) that seemed to suggest that Prime Minister Najib Razak and the National Registration Department (NRD) were doing a good job in addressing statelessness affecting the Indian community while…
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — Suspected car thief K. Kugan was beaten while in custody, a policeman who witnessed the assault told the High Court today, but confessed that he had failed to record the incident in the station diary as he had not expected the man to die as a result. Lance Corporal Mohd…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has granted leave for three Malaysian-born Indians to proceed with a judicial review over their failure to obtain MyKad. Justice Zaleha Yusof made the order after meeting counsel Latheefa Koya who acted for applicants S. Letchumy and her daughters K. Sarojini and K. Mala and Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul…
PETALING JAYA (Jan 2, 2013): The legal fraternity has called for the establishment of a coroner’s court in Malaysia in a bid for structural reform of inquests. Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee said such a court would be able to focus on identifying the deceased and ascertaining the circumstances of death. “Recent enquiries into…
Lawyers for Liberty fully supports the protest at the National Registration Department (NRD) in Putrajaya today by the Malaysian stateless, mainly from the Indian community for their lack of recognition and documentation as citizens. One should not be distracted by the controversy over the actual number as statelessness is normally a hidden phenomenon and…
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10, 2012): A 69-year-old woman and her two daughters filed a judicial review application at the High Court registry here today seeking a declaration that they are Malaysian citizens. The trio – S. Letchumy and her daughters K. Sarojini and K. Mala – are also seeking a court order, or mandamus, to…
KUALA LUMPUR STATELESS: Sarojini’s marriage is not recognised legally. THREE members of a family filed a suit against the National Registration Department (NRD), Home Ministry and the Malaysian government today at the Jalan Duta High Court for rendering them stateless. Letchumy Suppiah, 69, and her two daughters, Mala Kothandu, 34, and Sarojini Kothandu, 32, are seeking…
KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Dis — Keputusan mahkamah membebaskan Korporal Jenain Subi daripada tuduhan menyebabkan kematian remaja lelaki berumur 15 tahun, Aminulrasyid Amzah dibantah oleh kumpulan “Lawyers for Liberty (LFL)”, malah menggesa Peguam Negara (A-G) supaya merayu semula keputusan tersebut atas alasan wujudnya kelemahan pihak berkuasa dalam menguruskan kes tersebut. LFL menegaskan, terdapat beberapa perkara dalam…