KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has granted permission to Teoh Beng Hock’s family to initiate judicial review proceedings against the police over his death.
Lawyer Ramkarpal Singh, who is representing the family, said the judicial review compels the police to complete their probe into Beng Hock’s death.
Beng Hock’s father Teoh Leong Hwee, 74, and mother Teng Shuw Hoi, 69, are seeking an order from the court to compel the inspector-general of police (IGP) to complete the investigation within a month from today.
The government, the IGP and the Bukit Aman criminal investigation department director were named as respondents in their application, filed in the High Court on Jan 4.
The family is also seeking several declarations, including one that the police were negligent in their duty to complete the probe within a reasonable time.
Teng, in her affidavit supporting the judicial review, said the police had failed to complete the investigation in Beng Hock’s death despite an appellate court decision in the family’s favour in 2014.
She said the police had formed three separate task forces – in 2011, 2014 and 2018 – to investigate the death, and the last update on the investigation was communicated to them through their lawyers last year.
In 2014, a three-member Court of Appeal bench ruled that Beng Hock’s death was caused by the act of “person or persons unknown”, including the MACC officers who had questioned him overnight before he was found dead.
The High Court had also awarded the family about RM600,000 in damages for negligence in an out-of-court settlement.
Beng Hock, the then political aide to Selangor executive councillor and DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on the fifth-floor service corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009.
He had been held there overnight and questioned by MACC, whose Selangor headquarters was on the 14th floor.
A royal commission of inquiry in 2011 held that he was driven to commit suicide following aggressive questioning by MACC. - FMT
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