A panel member of the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) is no longer representing a policeman accused of causing the death-in-custody of N Dhamendran.
Upon learning that the EAIC is setting up a task force to investigate custodial deaths including that of Dhamendran, Salehudin Saidin informed the commission that he was withdrawing his firm from the case.
His firm, Salehudin Saidin and Associates, had been representing one of the three policemen charged with Dhamendran’s murder.
EAIC chief executive Hafizah Hanom Mokhtar told a press conference in Putrajaya today that Sallehudin had issued a statement that he had withdrawn his firm from the case with immediate effect.
Upon learning that the EAIC is setting up a task force to investigate custodial deaths including that of Dhamendran, Salehudin Saidin informed the commission that he was withdrawing his firm from the case.
His firm, Salehudin Saidin and Associates, had been representing one of the three policemen charged with Dhamendran’s murder.EAIC chief executive Hafizah Hanom Mokhtar told a press conference in Putrajaya today that Sallehudin had issued a statement that he had withdrawn his firm from the case with immediate effect.
In the statement, Salehudin said he was not aware that EAIC planned to investigate Dhamendran's death-in-custody when his firm took up the case.
At the same press conference, EAIC chairperson Heliliah Mohd Yusof announced that former Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee and former deputy inspector-general of police Mohd Jamil Johari would be consultants to EAIC's task force investigating the custodial deaths of Dhamendran and R Ramesh Jamesh.
At the same press conference, EAIC chairperson Heliliah Mohd Yusof announced that former Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee and former deputy inspector-general of police Mohd Jamil Johari would be consultants to EAIC's task force investigating the custodial deaths of Dhamendran and R Ramesh Jamesh.
'Unfair to stipulate date for start if probe'
The task force, for which Heliliah is a part of, consists of six people from EAIC's various divisions.
However, Heliliah said it would be "unfair" to stipulate an exact date for commencement and the conclusion of EAIC's probe into the deaths.
She also refused to disclose the identities of those who would be called up for the inquiry, and also maintained that the EAIC probe would not duplicate the police pledge to look into their Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
The EAIC task force was formed under Section 17 of the EAIC Act 2009, and will attempt to identify the problems within the SOP and the system within the police force that causes deaths in custody, apart from recommending the upgrading and tweaking of the system.
However, Heliliah said it would be "unfair" to stipulate an exact date for commencement and the conclusion of EAIC's probe into the deaths.
She also refused to disclose the identities of those who would be called up for the inquiry, and also maintained that the EAIC probe would not duplicate the police pledge to look into their Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
The EAIC task force was formed under Section 17 of the EAIC Act 2009, and will attempt to identify the problems within the SOP and the system within the police force that causes deaths in custody, apart from recommending the upgrading and tweaking of the system.
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