By Haris Ibrahim,
A little after 11 this morning, at the KL High Court, Justice Zabidin Mohd Diah, after hearing counsels in attendance, ordered that the body of the late Gunasegaran, who died in the Sentul police station on 16th July, 2009, and whose remains until today have been held at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (KLH) mortuary, be transported to the Universiti Hospital and that a second post mortem be carried out.
Before you get all excited and start to think that some ground-breaking decision was made in court this morning, the order was made based on the DPP consenting to the same.
Counsels for the applicant
Lead counsel Viswanathan
Co-counsels Sreekant (L) and Ben Lim
had urged the court to make some definite rulings on the procedure on the matter of post mortems and the delivery of reports of such post mortems in future cases.
Regretably, because the DPP was not opposing the order for the second post mortem as well the order to deliver the report of the first post mortem, the judge declined to make any ruling on this matter.
The judge also ordered that an inquest be conducted into the cause of Gunasegaran’s death. and ordered that the report of the first post mortem be delivered to the applicant within 14 days from today.
Counsel Viswa imformed me that the body will be moved to the Univerisiti Hospital on Thursday, 20th August, 2009 at 8am, and the post mortem is expected to commence that same morning, at about 9am.
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