Ipoh Barat MP M. Kula Segaran says Putrajaya should not treat custodial deaths as mere statistics. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 17, 2015.The coroner ruled that Chandran, 47, had died after being deprived of his medication.“The police have committed unlawful omission, which led to the death of the deceased by not giving him the medication for his disease and for not taking the necessary actions when his life was threatened," judge Ahmad Bache said in his ruling.Chandran, a father of six, was held at the lock-up for four days before his death and during that period, he was not allowed to take the medication that his family members tried to give him.The judge had also ticked off the police for their "failure and dishonesty" as footage obtained from the closed-circuit television (CCTV) showed that Chandran was not moving at 7.48am the day he died but police only reported his death 10 hours later.“This is an uncompassionate act and the court thinks that the deceased should not have been left to die in such conditions," Ahmad said.Kula said today that it was shocking to hear from the court how inhumane the police were towards Chandran, who was a suspect in a kidnapping case."Will (Datuk) Paul Low, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, who has not supported the setting up of the IPCMC now change his mind after reading such a 'horror' story?"In 2013, then High Court judge V.T. Singham had in the A. Kugan verdict said the setting up of IPCMC to investigate claims of disciplinary offences by the police to eliminate accusations of 'horror stories' in lock-ups, had to be urgently considered."Kugan, then 22, was arrested in Puchong on January 14, 2009, and held overnight at the Puchong Jaya police lock-up before police obtained a remand order.He was taken to the Taipan USJ, Subang Jaya police station two days later for questioning and was found dead on January 20, 2009.Last year, the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court ruling that Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, who was the Selangor police chief then, and his police officers were responsible for Kugan's death.Kula noted that according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released last year, only 7% of complaints made against the police between 2005 and 2012 had reached the courts, while more than half had yet to be fully investigated."From extrajudicial killings of teenagers to custodial deaths, threats to lawyers and assaults on journalists covering demonstrations, the report gives chilling and bloody first-person accounts of police abuse and misconduct."Malaysians are outraged by the rising custodian deaths and they are entitled to ask the government – how many more custodial deaths must occur before the IPCMC is set up?" – January 17, 2015.
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