Ravichandran Ramayah died under Malaysian Police custody. December 2004

Name	Age	Date	Circumstance of death
Ravichandran Ramayah	38	December , 2004	In October, Ravichandran Ramayah, 38, died a week after being arrested and detained by the Penang North East Police Station. Family members claimed that medical needs were not provided to Ravichandran even though it was clear that his condition was very poor when he appeared in the Magistrate's Court for remand proceedings.  The deceased then could only walk with the help of family members, causing the magistrate to order that he be brought to a hospital for medical attention. However, the police instead took the deceased to the Penang Prison, where he eventually died. State Police Chief Deputy Commissioner Othman Talib said that no wrongdoing had been committed on the part of the police.  He said that a post-mortem showed that Ravichandran died from natural causes and there were no signs of physical abuse or assault.