Sunday, June 8, 2014

Penang's seventh death in custody in 2014

Name
 Age
 Date 
 Circumstance of death
Agin Raj Sunmarkkan Naidu
29
7th June 2014
Suspected drug addiction in the Prai Industrial area where he worked. He was remanded for four days in the Bandar Perda police lock-up before he was admitted to the hospital on June 5, for suffering fits.
Regina(sister)  said when she and their mother, Sivapakiam Palchamy, 47, visited her brother in the hospital on June 5, he was writhing in pain, screaming to be released from being handcuffed and did not seem to recognise his family.
She noticed bruises around his lips, wrists and legs.
She claimed that when they asked the doctor on duty about it, he arrogantly told her, "when alcoholics don't get their fix, they normally go into fits".