Look at how NST made the family members and members of the public into a mob! Can’t believe this!!! And deputy ministers (Murugiah and Devamany) is being sought for questioning. This is one of few times where DAP, PKR, MIC and MS members were at the same place to show support over another case of death in police custody. Meanwhile the post-mortem result shows death was not due to foul play. But how to explain the injuries on the body? Was it inflicted during the arrest of the deceased?

The post-mortem indicates “fluid in lungs” as cause of death. How can fluid enter the lungs? That is the logical question one would ask. This person never had history of asthma, say the family. One possibility is being exposed to wet condition for prolonged period until moisture enters the lungs (something like pneumonia), I guess. Sleeping shirtless without blanket under air-cond daily or while hair/body is still wet can cause this as well.

So, even if its was not directly death due to injuries, circumstances and the environment of the custody may have led to the death.

The Star:

Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said police would record the statements of two deputy ministers in connection with the morgue incident in which the body of A. Kugan, who died in detention, was tampered with.

He said the post-mortem showed that Kugan, a suspected car thief who was being questioned at the Taipan police station in Subang Jaya, died of liquid in his lungs.

… However, on Tuesday, Kugan’s family and members of the public allegedly barged into the Serdang Hospital mortuary where the body was being kept, ripped off his shirt, moved his body and took some photographs.

NST:

Deputy Minister to be quizzed over mortuary mob attack

SUBANG JAYA, THURS:

A deputy minister is expected to be called up by police for his alleged involvement in the mob attack at the Serdang hospital mortuary on Tuesday night.
Post-mortem revealed no foul play in the death of police detainee A. Kugan at the Subang Taipan police station.

The mob had allegedly pushed out a medical assistant and his two staff before conducting their own checks on the body.

Malaysiakini also reported the same:

The police will record the statements of two deputy ministers over yesterday’s incident where some 50 people barged into the Serdang Hospital mortuary where the body of a 22-year-old youth who died in police custody was being kept.

It is learnt that Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister’s Department T Murugiah and SK Devamany were present at the morgue.

Meanwhile, MIC Youth’s advisor Vell Paari has outlined the next course of action:

He also said that he had informed Youth chief T Mohan to seek a second medical opinion on the cause of death.

“We should not just rely on the hospital post-mortem,” he told malaysiakini.

He said that the second independent medical report would help indentify the true cause of Kugan’s death.

“We talk and fight for the Palestine and Sri Lankan cause but similar atrocities are committed right under our noses. This has to stop and the cowards who caused the death of Kugan must be charged with murder,” he said.

Vell Paari also said that the party’s youth wing will work to set up a committee to monitor the welfare of all Indians under police custody.

“This will also avoid this sort of abuse and murder in the future,” he added.

I leave you with more photos from the mortuary, this time taken during MIC people’s visit, courtesy of Novinthen.

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