One of the five shot dead by police in Sungai Nibong had the identity card of his friend.
UPDATED
GEORGE TOWN: It was a case of mistaken identity when one of the five shot dead by police at an apartment in Sungai Nibong yesterday had the identity card of his friend.
N Rakan, 25, was having the identity card of A Vinuvt 23, when he was shot dead at the apartment at 4.30am on Monday.
The legal counsel for the bereaving families, RSN Rayer, confirmed that the wife and mother had identified Rakan’s body at the mortuary in Penang Hospital last night.
The other four dead were J Gobinath, 31, R Ramesh, 27, M Suresh, 25, and M Gobinath 21.
Rayer said Rakan’s wife had told her husband to return Vinuvt’s identity card a few days ago.
She does not know the reason why her husband was having Vinuvt’s identity card.
Vinuvt’s family was at the mortuary last night to collect his identity card but the police had turned them away.
Rayer said the police would return the identity card only after they had questioned Vinuvt to help in investigations.
Questions unanswered
On related matter, Penang MIC youth chief J Dhinagaran questioned on why the police did not attempt to arrest the alleged gang members first before opening fire against them.
He also said that if the alleged gang members had shot the police, their bodies would not have been found in separate rooms, where family members claimed that they were sleeping.
“If the men had been awake and indeed there had been a shootout, the five men would have been in the front, firing against the police and not found dead in the rooms. This is a mystery which the police would have to explain,” said Dhinagaran.
He also queried on how the police could have come to the immediate conclusion that they had already solved many murders cases across the country with the death of the five youths.
“We don’t want to see the police to be trigger happy but we want them to focus on detaining the criminals and bring them to justice,” said Dhinagaran.
UPDATED
GEORGE TOWN: It was a case of mistaken identity when one of the five shot dead by police at an apartment in Sungai Nibong yesterday had the identity card of his friend.N Rakan, 25, was having the identity card of A Vinuvt 23, when he was shot dead at the apartment at 4.30am on Monday.
The legal counsel for the bereaving families, RSN Rayer, confirmed that the wife and mother had identified Rakan’s body at the mortuary in Penang Hospital last night.
The other four dead were J Gobinath, 31, R Ramesh, 27, M Suresh, 25, and M Gobinath 21.
Rayer said Rakan’s wife had told her husband to return Vinuvt’s identity card a few days ago.
She does not know the reason why her husband was having Vinuvt’s identity card.
Vinuvt’s family was at the mortuary last night to collect his identity card but the police had turned them away.
Rayer said the police would return the identity card only after they had questioned Vinuvt to help in investigations.
Questions unanswered
On related matter, Penang MIC youth chief J Dhinagaran questioned on why the police did not attempt to arrest the alleged gang members first before opening fire against them.
He also said that if the alleged gang members had shot the police, their bodies would not have been found in separate rooms, where family members claimed that they were sleeping.
“If the men had been awake and indeed there had been a shootout, the five men would have been in the front, firing against the police and not found dead in the rooms. This is a mystery which the police would have to explain,” said Dhinagaran.
He also queried on how the police could have come to the immediate conclusion that they had already solved many murders cases across the country with the death of the five youths.
“We don’t want to see the police to be trigger happy but we want them to focus on detaining the criminals and bring them to justice,” said Dhinagaran.
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