Police Brutality In Question Again...

Okay, A. Kugan (pictured left) was detained on 15th January 2009 for suspicion of theft of luxury cars in Sungai Chua, Kajang. That area was well-known for car thefts and locals were probably thankful that the police was finally doing the necessary rounds to keep their vehicles safe. A. Kugan was sent to the Taipan USJ police station to be questioned.

According to police records, A. Kugan asked for a glass of water. Being the humanistic police that our force is famous for (well, were they ever?), they gave him a glass of water. He drank the water, threw up after the drink and then collapsed. Police said that they immediately sent for a doctor from a nearby clinic to examine A. Kugan, but he died a few minutes later.

Our prayers go out to A. Kugan and his family. It is never easy to deal with the fact that their son was captured on theft suspicion and almost immediately after that, they are making preparations on his burial proceedings. No parents ought to go through such punishments. RIP.



Hospital Serdang in Kajang performed an autopsy on A. Kugan, a pretty healthy 23-year old prior to his arrest, and found that there was water in his lungs ie he drown from his drink. His parents and relatives didn't take the findings too well, and got University Malaya Medical Centre to perform another autopsy, much to the aghast of the police force involved.

The good doctor, Dr Prashnant Samberkar found that the previous autopsy was only done on specific areas ie lungs; and when he performed a thorough autopsy, he found that A. Kugan died as a result of kidney failure, which was resultant from severe beatings leading to blood exposed into his kidneys.



Severe beatings? Now how could that hapen? Wasn't he in police custody? The police of course deny that there was a cover-up, but let's have the pictures taken on his body do the talking.

What kind of clowns do we have in the police force, smearing the good names of the rest of the brave and honest policemen and policewomen doing their bit for the country? Well, what can we expect when we have the biggest clown of all, the Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar being at the helm? Why is he a clown? Disregarding all those foolish statements that he had made in the past regarding Anwar Ibrahim, this Minister of Law labelled A. Kugan a criminal in the mainstream media, despite the latter having had no previous convictions/records and was beaten to death before the truth could surface? I am just a layman, but even I know that one is presumed innocent until proven otherwise in the court of law. When you have a Home Minister who thinks that he is the Judge, its not surprising that his subordinates think that they are higher than Law.

A. Kugan, in his death, brought a huge question into the nation's minds on whether could we continue trusting the police force. To restore this trust, we hope that a thorough investigation can be conducted and the rightful justice restored.