PKR leaders today suspected irregularities in the police’s investigation of Tapah PKR parliamentary candidate Vasantha Kumar’s aide, K Murugan.
Murugan was found dead three days after being reported missing on May 1st where his body was discovered floating in a pond near Batu Gajah in Perak.
His face was reportedly brutally smashed, his body slashed and tied with barbed wire and said to have been thrown into the pond together with 52kg of scrap metal.
Vasantha criticised the police for failing to call up even one Barisan Nasional (BN) member for questioning, although they had already called up 22 PKR members and civilians to assist in ivestigations.
Speaking at a press conference at PKR’s headquarters on Friday, he also accused the police for being ‘unfair and unprofessional’ for protecting BN members, including Tapah MP Datuk M. Saravanan whom he claimed ‘a local gangster’.
“I want the police to be transparent… stop delaying and start probing into the murder,” he said, hoping that the matter will gain response from the Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi.
He said so far two main suspects have been wanted by the police where one of them is allegedly from BN who had already ran way to Indonesia.
The other suspect, who is from Pakatan Rakyat, was remanded for six days but was released as the police couldn’t find any evidence on him.
Meanwhile, PKR Strategic Director Rafizi Ramli said Murugan’s death is part and parcel of the irregularity happening in Tapah.
He said eventhough the matter has been brought to the authorities; no satisfactory feedbacks have been received so far.
“Not even one (person) from BN has been called up,” said Rafizi disappointed.
Yesterday, Murugan’s mother also lodged a police report making it the second police report on this case.
In the report, Murugan’s mother, Rajamah Pachiappan mentioned that her son received death threats through calls in the middle of the night three to four days prior to his ‘disappearance’.
She also revealed that few police officers had came to her house on June 30, 2013 to collect some pawn letters issued under her and Murugan’s name, which she felt was quite odd.
Haider Yutim
Fri Jul 05 2013
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