Malaysian watchdog to monitor brutality on Indians

Kuala Lumpur (PTI): Concerned over increasing brutality and deaths in police lock-ups of ethnic Indians, the Malaysian Indian Congress, the party representing the minority community, has set up a watchdog to monitor such cases here.

The decision to form the watchdog comes in the wake the death of a 22-year-old ethnic Indian, A.Kugan, who was arrested in connection with a car theft and later died in police lockup allegedly of abuse last month, New Straits Times said on Monday.

The newly formed committee will comprise seven lawyers and three representatives from non-governmental organisations, all members of Malaysian Indian Congress' (MIC) Youth wing, Acting MIC Youth chief T. Mohan said the committee had already begun compiling the details of the death of Kugan from the police and his family.

The ethnic Indian party noted that at least 80 Indians had died in police custody in the past eight years, the report said. MORE...