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Wed, 10 Feb 2010
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Teoh's body to be exhumed Nov 21
Tan Yi Liang
 SHAH ALAM (Nov 9, 2009) : The coroner's court here has set Nov 21 for the exhumation of the body of political secretary Teoh Beng Hock and approved an application that the post-mortem be carried out the next day at Sungai Buloh Hospital.
Teoh, 30, was found dead on a 5th floor landing outside the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) Selangor office at Plaza Masalam here on July 16, after being questioned overnight over alleged misappropriations of state allocations by his employer, Ean Yong Hian Wah.
Magistrate Azmil Muntapha Abas allowed the request after noting that there was no opposition from any party to the location or to the specialists chosen to perform the post mortem.
In submissions earlier today, Teoh family counsel Gobind Singh Deo had proposed that the post mortem be conducted by Dr Shahidan Md Noor of Sungai Buloh Hospital, adding that the hospital had also consented to allowing its facilities to be used for the post mortem.
"He is the head of the pathology department of Sungai Buloh Hospital, and I am also informed that the hospital is prepared to allow their facilities to be used for a second post mortem," said Gobind.
He said Shahidan would be assisted by the inquest's 26th witness, Dr K. Saravanan.
He had earlier testified as the pathologist who took the photos during the initial post mortem by Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim and Dr Prashant Samberkar at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang.
"He testified that he was present in the last post mortem and took photographs of the first post mortem, and therefore it would be more prudent that he take the photographs of the second," said Gobind, whose application was supported by MACC counsel Datuk Abdul Razak Musa.
He had earlier told the court that the MACC expert was only available from Nov 26.
"The MACC has made actions to call for a foreign expert to be present during the second post mortem, and that the earliest date is between Nov 26 and 30.
"However, taking into account the facts introduced, I do not wish to introduce his name as I fear he might not come. I ask the court to prepare a written order to ask him to come earlier as an order of the court to accommodate everyone," he said.
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Gobind Singh
| Meanwhile, during earlier questioning by Abdul Razak, the inquest's 20th witness T. Sivanesan maintained that his injuries did not come from three enemies named “Ron”, “Puli” and “Ravi” he had made in the course of his earlier job as a volunteer Rela constable but were at the hands of the MACC.
In his testimony on Sept 9, Sivanesan, 22, the assistant manager of a Kuantan-based scaffolding company Puncak Rezeki Makmur Sdn Bhd, said he was slapped, kicked, punched, beaten with a metal bar, and hit on his gentals with a cane by Selangor MACC officers, after being asked to help in an investigation last year.
Sivanesan denied that he had been involved in the extortion of RM 30,000 from Indonesians and maintained that no one had coached him to make up the facts of his police report made on Sept 11 last year. He said he did not make up the report to make any confession by him in front of then-Anti Corruption Agency(ACA) officers inadmissible.
During further questioning by Abdul Razak as to his torn underwear, Sivanesan refuted a claim by Abdul Razak, who had accused Sivanesan of tearing up his own underwear to be submitted in court as evidence.
Abdul Razak then added that he noted that the former auxiliary constable had not complained of brutality when he was hauled up to the magistrate's court twice and had also failed to name in his police report MACC officers who he claimed assaulted him in Plaza Masalam here last year.
He said Sivanesan, who had testified that he was unable to walk after his injuries, was able to stand when he was brought twice before a magistrate, as Sivanesan had agreed with Abdul Razak that he was not brought into court on a stretcher.
However, during questioning by Gobind, Sivanesan said that he had not reported his injuries to the magistrate, as he had been threatened by Selangor MACC officers.
"If I told the magistrate, the remand would be extended and what happened on the first and second days would go on," said Sivanesan.
He said he had only received medical attention after being directed to do so when he was given a letter by the police when he made his police report.
He denied a claim by Abdul Razak that he had declined to attend a police identity parade, as he was never called for one. He said the police told him that they would ask for his torn underwear when they recalled him for a second statement which they never did.
The inquest continues on Friday.
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Updated: 01:13AM Tue, 10 Nov 2009
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