Kugan family lawyers claim he may have been poisoned

A new twist into the death of A. Kugan, who died while in police custody, emerged today when lawyers representing his family told the magistrate’s court they had evidence he may also have been poisoned.

N. Surendran, who is one of the family’s three lawyers seeking the return of toxicology samples obtained from Kugan, told the court he had post-mortem pictures which a medical expert believes show an injection mark on Kugan’s arm.

The toxicology samples were seized by the police on April 6 during a raid on the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) where a second post-mortem on Kugan was carried out on the insistence of his family.

Surendran argued that the return of the samples was vital because the family intends to send them for analysis in Australia to determine if Kugan was poisoned.

“His family wants the test to be conducted because they believe he died not only because of brutal beatings but from an injection of a substance into his body.”

The High Court last week ordered police to produce the toxicology samples before the magistrate today to determine if they should be returned to UMMC.

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