Khalid denies Navindran was made a scapegoat

Former Selangor police chief and current deputy inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar has denied that Constable V Navindran was made a scapegoat for the death of A Kugan.

Khalid, who is a defendant in the negligence suit brought by Kugan’s mother N Indra, maintained in the High Court today that there was no cover-up in the police investigations.

“After the incident was reported, I asked all nine officers involved in Kugan’s interrogation transferred to the Selangor police contingent headquarters.

“This is so that they would not interfere in the on-going investigations,” Khalid said.

Asked by Sivarasa Rasiah, who is acting for the family, whether a meeting was called by the late Subang Jaya OCPD ACP Zainal Rashid - at  which the officers responsible for the interrogation were asked to put up one person as a scapegoat - Khalid said he did not know.

“I know that investigations were carried out under Section 330 of the Penal Code (for causing injury) and an officer had been narrowed down to have caused it,” he said.

Navindran (right), who has since been convicted of causing hurt to Kugan and sentenced to three years' jail, testified last month that he had been forced by the police to become the scapegoat.

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