Family of man killed in fire call for answers from police

 

Kannadasan Veerasamy, who died when his workshop caught fire on Nov 19, 2021.

PETALING JAYA: The wife of a man killed in a fire three months ago, who claims he was murdered, says she is losing hope in the police team investigating the case.

Revathi Elangovan questioned how the police had allegedly lost the password to her mobile phone after asking for it two months ago.

She said the police are intent on investigating her husband’s death as a suicide although the family have repeatedly urged the police to look into it as a murder case.

Her husband, Kannadasan Veerasamy, a 34-year-old workshop supervisor, died in a fire on Nov 19 at his workplace in Puchong.

Revathi said the police told her on Feb 4 that they had lost the letter containing her mobile phone password, which she had handed over with her phone on Dec 31 at the request of the police.

“Why are they only asking for my password now? What have they been doing with my phone all this while?” she told FMT. “If they didn’t need my phone urgently then, why did they threaten to fine me for not handing it in earlier?”

She said she has tried to raise her concerns with Bukit Aman’s integrity and standards compliance department, but they refused to entertain her as Kannadasan’s case was still under investigation.

She has since lodged two reports with the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission. It has confirmed that Revathi lodged separate reports on Dec 30 and Feb 8.

Revathi said the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) told her they would first need to determine Kannadasan’s cause of death before being able to take action.

She said police told her that the post-mortem report would take another three to four months to be released as the toxicology report had to be outsourced, which could add another year to the wait.

The family’s lawyer, S Vinesh, said Revathi and her family had “lost trust in these officers” from the district police headquarters investigating the case.

The investigating officer has declined to comment as the case is still under investigation. - FMT