Human Rights Party (HRP) pro-tem secretary-general P Uthayakumar was awarded RM145,000 by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today as compensation and damages stemming from his wrongful arrest and detention by police on Jan 16, 2003, at a magistrate's court in Sepang.
On July 29, judicial commissioner Rosilah Yop in her judgment, ordered Uthayakumar to be paid RM55,000 as aggravated damages,RM50,000 for “wrongful arrest and detention” and RM40,000 for exemplary damages, with an interest of eight percent from a year since the commencement of the case.
Tthe government, the Royal Malaysian Police Force and 11 police officers had been sued by Uthayakumar (right) for malicious conduct for forcing him to strip at the Sepang police station during his detention.
News of the civil suit published in Malaysiakini on Feb 18, 2003.
On July 29, judicial commissioner Rosilah Yop in her judgment, ordered Uthayakumar to be paid RM55,000 as aggravated damages,RM50,000 for “wrongful arrest and detention” and RM40,000 for exemplary damages, with an interest of eight percent from a year since the commencement of the case.
Tthe government, the Royal Malaysian Police Force and 11 police officers had been sued by Uthayakumar (right) for malicious conduct for forcing him to strip at the Sepang police station during his detention.News of the civil suit published in Malaysiakini on Feb 18, 2003.
Human rights lawyer P Uthayakumar today filed a civil suit against the police seeking a court declaration that his arrest and detention last month by two district police units were unconstitutional and done with malicious intent.
During a press conference at the Kuala Lumpur Civil High Court, Uthayakumar told reporters that he had applied for a declaration that the police had abused their powers in arresting and detaining him twice concurrently.
Among others, he asked for the court to find that "the arrest and detention of the plaintiff for 25 hours without a court order has violated Article 5(4) of the Federal Constitution" and that he had been subjected to "malicious prosecution". In the suit, Uthayakumar named as defendants five police officers, the Royal Malaysian Police, the attorney-general and the government.
The lawyer, who is also the pro tem secretary-general of Parti Reformasi Insan Malaysia (Prim), was first arrested by Sepang police on Jan 16 for alleged "criminal intimidation" of a police officer handling an investigation into a death in custody.
He was released briefly the following day but rearrested and detained for several hours by Sentul police on similar charges.
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