"Money will never bring back my son." The plaintive words of a mother's anguish, as in the case of Kugan's mother, N. Indra (pix), after winning her case last week against the Inspector General of Police, the government and three other defendants.
Despite being awarded RM851,700 in damages by the High Court last Wednesday, for Indra, 45, her personal loss was far greater.
"I am not happy. It cannot bring back my son. My son is not here," she told theSun in a phone interview after the court decision.
However, Indra said she is happy to have won the case against against the police.
On the award amount, Indra said: "Money is not important. My son is more important."
Kugan, 22, who died in police custody on Jan 20, 2009 was her eldest child.
"I will never get a son like him," she said.
Kugan's two younger siblings are in secondary school.
Indra, a widow, works in a plastic company in Puchong Jaya. She had said after Kugan's death that there were other families in a similar predicament.
Asked what her advice would be to parents facing a similar ordeal, Indra said they should not give up the fight for justice.
In his decision, Justice Datuk V.T.Singham said former Selangor police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar (now Inspector-General of Police), was liable to misconduct in public office.
He also found the police and the government liable for Kugan's death from grievous injuries at the Taipan police station on Jan 20, 2009.
In her RM100 million negligence and breach of statutory duty suit filed on Jan 13, last year, Indra, had named Khalid, former constable V. Navindran, former Subang Jaya police chief ACP Zainal Rashid Abu Bakar (deceased), the Inspector-General of Police and the government as defendants.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said in Ipoh the government and the police would appeal against the High Court Court verdict.
- theSundaily
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