KUALA LUMPUR, 4 Aug 2009: The High Court here today allowed a preliminary objection by the Royal Malaysia Police, and dismissed a notice of motion filed by the mother of suspected car thief, A Kugan. N Indra had wanted the police to return documents, and her son’s tissue samples and bodily fluids. Kugan died in […]
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Kugan’s mother applies for return of post-mortem papers
KUALA LUMPUR, 28 May 2009: The mother of A Kugan, who died while in police custody four months ago, today filed a notice of motion to compel the police to return documents, tissue samples and bodily fluids of her son which were seized from Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). N Indra, 41, a hotel housekeeper, […]
Kugan case: Raid on pathologist office condemned
KUALA LUMPUR, 8 April 2009: Lawyers representing A Kugan’s family condemned the “raid” by police officers yesterday on the office of the pathologist who had conducted the second post-mortem on the dead detainee. Counsel Gobind Singh Deo said the seizure of several samples collected by University Malaya Medical Centre pathologist Dr Prashand N Samberkar, who […]
Kugan died of acute pulmonary oedema (Updated 11.38pm)
(Updated 11:38pm, 6 April 2009) PUTRAJAYA, 6 April 2009: Remand prisoner A Kugan died of swelling or fluid build-up in the lungs, due to acute inflammation of the heart muscle compounded by blunt force trauma, an independent committee investigating the two post-mortem reports on him concluded. Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican […]
Family to send Kugan’s tissue samples to Oz
KUALA LUMPUR, 5 Feb 2009: The family of A Kugan, the car thief suspect who died while in police custody, will send samples taken from his body for analysis in Australia. The lawyer representing the family, N Surendran, said they decided to do so as they claimed that there was interference by the authorities during […]
S’gor CPO to give statement on Kugan case
PORT KLANG, 4 Feb 2009: Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar will give his statement to the police next week in connection with the death of car thief suspect A Kugan. Speaking to reporters after visiting the marine police base at the Pulau Indah here, he said, the statement would be recorded by Bukit […]
Police report lodged against S’gor CPO
KUALA LUMPUR, 29 Jan 2009: A police report has been lodged against Selangor Police Chief, Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar who claimed that two deputy ministers and the family of car theft suspect, A Kugan, had barged into the Serdang Hospital mortuary on 20 Jan. Member of Parliament for Kapar, S Manikavasagam and lawyer N Surendran […]
Six people arrested at Kugan’s funeral (Updated)
(Updated 7:43pn, 28 Jan 2009) KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Jan 2009: Six men, one of them a wanted criminal, were arrested at the funeral today of A Kugan, who died in police custody, at the main entrance of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) in Petaling Jaya. Brickfields police chief ACP Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul […]
Police arrest five outside UMMC mortuary
PETALING JAYA, 28 Jan 2009: Police arrested five men from among a crowd outside the mortuary of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) today just before the hearse bearing the body of A Kugan was to begin the funeral procession to Puchong. Three of the men were held for wearing T-shirts bearing the word “Hindraf”, […]
Kugan undergoes second post-mortem
PETALING JAYA, 25 Jan 2009: A second post-mortem was today conducted on A Kugan who died whilst in a lock-up at a police station in Subang Jaya. Doctors at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) carried out the post-mortem at noon. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department T Murugiah said that Deputy Prime Minister […]
