Closure for lock-up death case, P Babu. Family not doing second autopsy, so nothing much to speculate or investigate.
Even after his death P Babu whose body was found hanging in a police lock-up caused a bit of confusion over why his second autopsy was off the books for his family.
In the first instance, the allegation was that the family gave in to police threats of action under the emergency ordinance if they went ahead with their plan, so they collected his remains from the mortuary last Saturday and holding the funeral the same day.
Earlier, the family has refused to collect his remains from the morgue when he was found dead in the Jempol police lock up on Feb 1 at about 4am after he surrendered himself in connection with a robbery case.
When contacted, Malaysia Alternative Action Team president Kalaivanar, said:
“The police threatened to book his friends and family members under the emergency ordinance if they continued their efforts to publish the case in the media and go for a second post mortem.”
He also said that this is among the reasons why the family claimed the sawmill worker’s body.
“However, there will not be any second autopsy, as the first post-mortem was done perfectly.
“There were no marks of self defense or bruises in his body except for his neck,” he added
Kalaivanar, who is also the former Jerai PKR division chief and whose help the family sought after Babu’s death, said still police will be sued for negligence.
MIC Youth Assistant Secretary, A Premnath said:
“We would definitely condemn the act of police threatening the family of the deceased and a senior police officer should look into the matter immediately.”
He also asked Babu’s family members to approach the MIC for help, if they need any, particularly legal assistance.
Babu’s uncle, M Mahadevan, however, contradicted Kalaivanar, denying that the police threatened them.
“It was a bit troublesome and furthermore waiting for the second autopsy seemed quite long.
“So, I agreed to the funeral. Kalainavar also advised me to go ahead with the funeral,” he added.
He confirmed that there will no second post-mortem.