UMNO denies Birth Certificate to Indian babies born in prison, Malay-sian Court jails for 11 months a sixth generation Malaysian born Indian for being an “illegal immigrant”.

Chitra Dorai (15) was born at the Alor Setar Prison while Rajeswari’s daughter was born at the Lenggang Detention Centre.
All because the racist UMNO National Registration Department denied them their innate right to birth certificates and identity cards.
When Chitra Devi was born at the Alor Setar Prison for whatever reason why didn’t the racist UMNO Prison Director or the Prison Welfare officer make the necessary arrangements for the Birth Certificate to be issued to Chitra Devi. Why?
Because she is a poor and politically powerless Indian.
Similarly Rajeswari was six months pregnant when she was arrested on 30/8/2007 in Brickfields for being a suspected illegal immigrant from India. When she could not produce her Identity Card that got lost and was then 6 months pregnant.
When HRP met En. Mohd Azmin bin Hassan the Director of Births, Deaths and Adoptions at his Putrajaya office on 13/8/2010, P.Uthayakumar had specifically questioned as to why Rajeswari Murugaiah had to be imprisoned when the simplest thing to do was to take her thumb print and the National Registration Department could have easily verified that she was a Malaysian and Rajeswari should have been released from police detention within 24 hours!
Instead perhaps being the sixth generation Malaysian born Rajeswari was forced to plead guilty for being an illegal immigrant and was thrown into jail for one month. The UMNO Magistrate, Police, Attorney General, Welfare Department, National Registration Department and the Prime Minister’s Department all ganged up and cared a damn to do their very simple duty ie get Rajeswari’s thumbprint and forthwith release her from police custody.
These UMNO authorities have zero respect for Rajeswari’s Constitutional right to freedom of the person further to Article 5 of the Federal Constitution.
Luckily for Rajeswari she managed to tip off to a stranger when she was brought to a clinic when her jail born daughter was sick.
This stranger brought Rajeswari’s plight to the attention of Andrew Raju, a former student of Uthayakumar on whom public interest thoughts perhaps rubbed off on the student.
As an ordinary civilian Andrew Raju did a very simple thing. He took the pains and located Rajeswari’s Tamil primary school, got her birth certificate number and armed with this got Rajeswari released from prison. Some thing the authorities could have easily done.
If not for Andrew Raju Rajeswari and her baby daughter would perhaps be serving their “life sentence” in the UMNO jail as no country would accept her as she is a sixth generation Malaysian born ethnic minority Indian.
This yet again is just the tip of the iceberg of UMNO’s atrocities against the poor and politically powerless Indians in Malaysia.
P.Uthayakumar