Family demands justice for death-in-custody victim

Family members of death-in-custody victim cried for justice in front of the police headquarters at Bukit Aman in Kuala Lumpur this morning.

They said Krishnan Subramaniam was arrested in Kota Damansara on Nov 8 and on Nov 20, the magistrate's court in Petaling Jaya ordered that he be sent to the Hospital Bahagia mental hospital in Tanjung Rambutan, Perak, for observation.

However, Krishnan was found dead when he was sent to the hospital on Nov 22.

"The post-mortem conducted on Krishnan confirms that he died of septicaemia, meaning that his blood was badly infected," Subang MP Sivarasa Rasiah said outside the federal police headquarters.

"How did that happen? It is because there was a wound on his wrist, caused by his handcuffs or possibly by other causes that were not treated.

"We know that if he was treated with antibiotics that are easily available, he would have recovered in a week," added Sivarasa, who was with Krishnan's family to hand over a memorandum calling on Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar to take action on the matter.

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