With another death in custody in Penang last week, the DAP man urges the government to widen police monitoring of the department.
Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy with Deviga Subramaniam, 45, at the Perai DAP service centre here today.
Ramasamy said Ahnbalagan was found dead in his cell on May 11, with wardens claiming that he had hung himself with a blanket in prison. “In the latest case, could there have been a collusion between the police, the prison authorities and even the Penang Hospital’s Forensic Department?According to the home ministry’s reply in Parliament in 2017, the official number of deaths in police custody were 257 from 2002 to 2016.
However, two weeks ago, he was transferred to the Penang Prison upon his own request as he wanted to be closer to his family in Penang. When he died, he was serving the third month of his sentence. Ramasamy said Deviga’s attempt at lodging a police report was met with resistance, with officers refusing to take the report. He said the report was only accepted when municipal councillor P David Marshel sought the help of the deputy district police chief.
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