Police behaved like gangsters?! Oh why am I not surprised?

A witness in the R Gunasegaran death in custody case was whisked away by the police from his house in Kuala Lumpur last night.

K Selvachandran's wife S Saraswathy (left in photo), said she was told to give him a goodbye kiss by police officers - four male and one female - who came to her house at about 10pm before taking him away and alleged that one of the policemen grabbed the house key when Selvachandran was trying to unlock the door, punched him and opened the door themselves. Saraswathy was speaking in Tamil at a press conference today. Among those present were Suaram coordinator E Nalini, M Visvanathan, the lawyer for Gunasegaran's family and social activist C Sekar. Sekar said that Saraswathy told him the officers came without identifying themselves, and merely flashed their authority cards before taking Selvachandran away. Sekar condemned the officers' behavior and said the way they behaved was like gangsters.

Yesterday, the Coroner's Court delivered an open verdict in the inquest of toddy shop assistant R. Gunasegaran, who died in police custody two years ago. Coroner Siti Shakirah Mohtarudin passed the verdict after finding that there was insufficient evidence needed to record a conclusion. Selvachandran was at the Sentul police station on July 16, 2009, on the day Gunasegaran was arrested and he testified that he saw Lance Corporal Mohd Faizal Mat Taib kick the deceased in the chest.