Human rights NGO says Attorney-General and IGP must take issues of state violence more seriously.

Lawyer Eric Paulsen, who represented the family of the deceased P. Karuna Nithi, says a deputy public prosecutor had written to Coroner Datuk Jagjit Singh to reopen the inquest. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, July 1, 2015.
PETALING JAYA: Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) has reiterated its call for an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).
The human rights NGO’s Executive Director Eric Paulsen said the IPCMC could function as an independent and external oversight body to investigate complaints about police personnel. The IPCMC is a powerful police watchdog mooted by a Royal Commission of Inquiry in 2005.
This latest call by the LFL comes following the decision of the Seremban Coroner’s Court today that there was no new material evidence produced by a Health Ministry-convened Inquiry Committee’s Report into the death of a detainee, P. Karuna Nithi, 42, at the Tampin police station lock-up on June 1, 2013.
The coroner, who reopened the inquest into the custody death, found the report to be not reliable or credible. Read more