Rawang shooting: Inquest to be conducted at Shah Alam court
The authorities will hold an inquest into the death of three men shot dead by police in Rawang two months ago, a source close to the case told Malaysiakini.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the case had been registered for an inquest with the Shah Alam Coroner's Court this week.
Three men were gunned down by cops who said the trio were part of a home invasion gang.
The authorities will hold an inquest into the death of three men shot dead by police in Rawang two months ago, a source close to the case told Malaysiakini.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the case had been registered for an inquest with the Shah Alam Coroner's Court this week.
"The Batu Arang shooting of three men has been registered for an inquest at Shah Alam (court)," said the source.
Checks with the judiciary's e-filing system revealed that the case is set to be heard before Coroner Rofiah Mohamad this Nov 29 at the Shah Alam Courts Complex.
Rofiah, who is a Sessions Court judge, is the same coroner who presided over the recently concluded inquest to determine the cause of death of firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim who died in December last year after sustaining injuries during a temple riot in Subang Jaya.
The shooting inquest is expected to delve into the circumstances surrounding the incident at Jalan Batu Arang which saw three men gunned down by a police team at about 5 am on Sept 14.
Police said the men were suspected to be members of a house break-in gang and that they were killed allegedly during a shootout which happened after a high-speed chase.
The men were identified by their family members as G Thavaselvan, 31, S Maghendran, 23, and Sri Lankan national V Janarthanan, 40.
Janarthanan, who resided in the UK and is the brother-in-law of Thavaselvan, was in Malaysia together with his wife and their three kids for a visit. Maghendran, meanwhile, was Thavaselvan's friend.
However, the family members of Thavaselvan and Janarthanan later told the media that they disputed the police's version of the incident and claimed possible foul play.
They claimed that the three men, together with Janarthanan's wife G Moganambal, had gone out for dinner the night before the incident in a Perodua Alza and not a Volkswagen Polo which police says the men were in when they were shot.
The families also called for police to investigate and reveal what had happened to Moganambal whom they said has gone missing since.
Contacted today for comments on the inquest, Thavaselvan's wife Jasminder Kaur said the family hoped that the inquest would answer to all their questions as to what actually happened.
She said the government owes them an explanation, especially to the children left behind by her husband and Janarthanan.
"What we want is justice. We want to know what happened, we need a clear picture exactly.
"We didn't receive any feedback on the progress (of the case), nobody called us to give any feedback. My sister (went) missing and no answer was given. We don't know what happened to her, whether she is still alive or is no more," said Jasminder.
