A. Gnanapragasam whose body was found dead in a lock-up at the Damansara police station. Believed to be beaten to death. June 2009

Name	Age	Date	Circumstance of death
A. Gnanapragasam	53.	June 10, 2009	A suspected thief was found dead in a police lock-up after a guard noticed the 53-year-old man lying flat beside the toilet. The deceased has been identified as A. Gnanapragasam, a wireman who was arrested on June 10 for allegedly breaking into a house in Sungai Buloh in the early hours of the morning. Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed said the deceased, whose body was found at around 8.05am yesterday, had been placed in a lock-up with four others at the Damansara police station. The guard, he said, had immediately called the ambulance. When met at the mortuary, the wife of the dead man, M. Manimatalai, 40, said she suspected foul play as when she last met him on Friday, he had a bruise on his right eye. “I saw that he had a black eye. I was also informed that when he was brought before a Petaling Jaya magistrate for a remand order, he had apparently told the magistrate that he was being beaten and mistreated by the police while in custody,” said the saleswoman and mother of six.