Rule of Law Shall Prevail
The Late Kugan was detained as a suspect in the high profile car smuggling case but unfortunately he died while under the police custody. On 21 Jan 2009, the media report says, family members together with two Deputy Minister stormed the mortuary in Serdang Hospital and photographed The Late Kugan’s body. Two Deputy Minister denied they stormed the mortuary but mention the Kugan’s family members was inside the mortuary room when they arrived. I have no intention to defend the two Deputy Minister, The Late Kugan’s or the police personnel but this case has become the national issue and I was told the various media representative even from Jakarta was seen in crematorium centre in Puchong during the funeral day.
Let me make my opinion short in this case;
i. Rule of Law shall prevail in this case. If any evidence that two Deputy Minister or family members of the deceased stormed the mortuary room then take them to the court.
ii. Full investigation without any hidden hand shall be conducted if the second autopsy report said the deceased was murdered. The members of police force, who was responsible for the [if] murder shall be taken to the court.
iii. Malaysian Medical Council shall conduct the full investigation whether the Doctor who have conducted the first autopsy have breached the “Medical Ethics” by [if] tampering the autopsy report. If the doctor fails to uphold the “Medical Ethics” then he/she shall be disciplined.
iv. Compensation shall be provided to the deceased family and Selangor CPO shall tender his apology for the delivery of [if] wrong information initially.
I believe the conduct of few bad apples in government service has tarnished the image of the Government. To avoid the similar case in future the Rule of Law shall prevail. The drastic action from the government will send the strong signal to Malaysian, no one above the law.
Comments
I am in total agreement with your opinion.I also agree the rule of law will prevail.But the question is when?
According to the media reports, there were 80 deaths took place in police lock-up between 2000-2004.Even the the former Chief Justice have lamented lately that out of that,only 39 cases were brought to court for trial.This is the sad state of police interogation in Malaysian police custody!Isn't amount to custodial death?
I too feel sad to see the photoes displayed in your blog about the brutality caused by Sri Lankan army on Tamils in Sri Lanka.How about posting the brutality caused by Malaysian police to A.Kuhan in your blog for the world to make judgement whether law prevails in Malaysia or not.Anyway the Attorney General has classified A.Kuhan's death as a murder. What is your view?
Thank you for your observation. I didn't upload The Late Kugan's photo's because the cyber community easily can get the photo's from various blog and video clip from youtube but very hard to see the Ellam Tamil's picture in any local blogs. Hundreds of Tamil people murdered on daily basis but no one bothered. Under humanitarian tag, I uploaded the pictures as part of the awareness campaign. Though I didn't upload Kugan photo's yet I had make a very clear stand on this case.
When justice will prevail? A question that need a collective decision. The justice will not prevail if people don't have any interest in the Rule of Law. People must take a decision, to knock out any political party which refuse to uphold the Rule of Law. I'm ready but how about you?
It's good to read news report saying AG have reclassified the case as murder but then it's juat a classification and not a final decision. AG will take a decision after going through the 2nd autopsy report. Even if Ag decided to charge all the policeman [some said a group of man involved] but impossible to charge them under 302since its involved a group of policeman. Most probably they will be charged under causing hurt or murder without intention. Any way lets wait for the decision.
Until then, revisit again my blog.
It is good that we give equal importance to the alleged police brutality taking place at our own backyard while we sympathy to the merciless killing taking place in Sri Langka as well as Palestin.