Activist Cites New Evidence Disputing Police Account Of Deaths

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Activist Arun Dorasamy has claimed there was more “evidence” to contradict official statements on the deaths of three men in Durian Tunggal, Malacca, allegedly at the hands of police.
Speaking during a press conference at Lawyers for Liberty’s office in Petaling Jaya today, Arun revealed that he received a handwritten letter in Tamil from a whistleblower, along with photographs taken from the alleged murder scene.
He said the timestamps of the photos, which were shared with the media, corroborated an audio recording by one of the victims’ wives when the incident allegedly occurred.
“(Highway concessionaire company) Plus spotted a car that stalled along KM224, and posted some ‘messages’ for tow trucks to go to their assistance.
“At 1.25am, the first tow truck ‘person’ came. That’s very similar to the timeline that we have put forward,” Arun said during the press conference with lawyers for the victims’ families.
Lawyers have consistently disputed Malacca police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar’s statement that his team had no choice but to open fire at the men, aged 24-29, after one swung a machete at a police officer at a palm oil plantation.
Malacca police chief Dzulkhairi MukhtarThe police’s account also stated that the incident occurred at 4.30am and allegedly caused a corporal, in his early 30s, to suffer severe injuries to his left arm.
Letter and photos
Arun said the whistleblower was a second tow truck driver who arrived on scene at 2.21am the same day, but wrote the letter based on the first driver’s account.
“The person who took these pictures and wrote this note (letter to Arun) went to the scene at 2.21am, but there was nobody there except for the Saga ‘CCP 7208’, so then he took pictures of the car,” he said.
Several photos showed the red car with its doors open and engine hood lifted, as well as the inside of the car.
“He took the pictures because he wanted to show the date and time, the time is 2.21am and the date Nov 24.
“Until three or four days ago, he did not know the car that he took pictures of was the car implicated in the Durian Tunggal murder case,” Arun said, adding that the whistleblower discovered the connection as he was one of the activist’s social media followers.
Referring to another photo, Arun highlighted a mobile phone said to belong to one of the victims, 29-year-old G Logeswaran, and used in a final phone call to his wife, M Jayashree, who was also present today.
“So again with this ‘evidence’, we debunk the narrative of the Malacca police,” he insisted.
Additionally, Arun said he and the lawyers went to the scene and verified the existence of a Plus highway CCTV that he argued would have captured the entire incident between 1.25am and 2.21am.
ADSConflicting accounts
On Dec 6, Jayashree and lawyers for the families said based on the audio recording on Nov 24, which has been submitted to Bukit Aman, the three men could be heard cooperating with the police as they were being detained.
She also said the recording did not indicate the victims behaving in a threatening manner as alleged.
Subsequently, the Bukit Aman central police headquarters announced that it had set up a team to investigate the case, including the police reports lodged by the victims’ family members.
Lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan, who was also present today, said they will submit the letter and photos as part of another police report to be lodged at the Petaling Jaya district police station. - Mkini

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