Dr Pornthip dakwa gomen Najib tidak gembira dengan dirinya...

Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand enggan mengadakan bedah siasat kedua terhadap mayat pengawal keselamatan C. Sugumar oleh kerana kerajaan Malaysia tidak gembira dengan hasil kerjanya dalam kes Teoh Beng Hock.

Peguam keluarga Sugumar, N. Surendran mengatakan Selasa lalu pakar forensik Thailand itu tiba-tiba mengubah keputusannya selepas pengumuman tentang kedatangannya pada Rabu untuk bedah siasat Sugumar, yang dikatakan mati kerana keganasan polis bulan lalu diumumkan.

“Timbalan setiausaha tetap MOJ (Kementerian Kehakiman Thailand) memberitahu saya terdapat mesej daripada perdana menteri bahawa kerajaan Malaysia tidak gembira dengan kerja saya, terutamanya dalam kes TBH (Teoh Beng Hock),” kata Dr Pornthip (gambar) kepada The Malaysian Insider melalui emel semalam.

Dr Pornthip menjadi pemerhati dalam bedah siasat kedua Teoh dan memberi keterangan kepada koroner dan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Di Raja (RCI) terdapat kemungkinan salah laku dalam kematian pembantu Exco DAP itu di ibu pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) Selangor pada 2009.

RCI telah membuat kesimpulan Teoh telah didorong untuk membunuh diri selepas soal siasat agresif dan tanpa henti oleh tiga pegawai SPRM.

“Saya memberitahu peguam tersebut bahawa saya adalah pegawai kerajaan di bawah Kementerian Kehakiman yang memerlukan kebenaran daripada setiausaha tetap,” kata Dr Pornthip yang merupakan pengarah Institut Sains Forensik Thailand, di bawah MOJ.

Dr Pornthip menegaskan beliau memerlukan kebenaran untuk melaksanakan autopsi pada Sugumar tanpa apa-apa batasan, tetapi tidak menyatakan jika MOJ telah melarang beliau untuk berbuat demikian.

“Sila hantar mesej saya kepada rakyat negara anda anda saya tidak pernah mahu terlibat dalam politik. Saya faham bahawa setiap negara mempunyai sistem keadilan mereka sendiri, tetapi tidak perlu ada halangan bagi rakyat untuk mencari keadilan,” katanya.

Beliau menambah akan menghantar dokumen dari MOJ kepada The Malaysian Insider kemudian.

Dr Pornthip terkenal di Thailand kerana berlawan dengan pihak berkuasa, terutamanya untuk mendakwa pembunuhan dilakukan polis semasa kempen anti-dadah Perdana Menteri ketika itu Thaksin Shinawatra pada tahun 2003.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah meminta laporan forensik ke atas kematian Sugumar sebelum ini selepas isu  tersebut ditimbulkan dalam mesyuarat Kabinet.

Menteri Kesihatan Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai telah diarahkan untuk mengendalikan laporan tersebut selepas presiden MIC Datuk Seri G. Palanivel yang juga Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri telah menimbulkan isu kematian pengawal keselamatan semasa mesyuarat Kabinet.

Beberapa saksi melihat Sugumar terbaring diatas jalan berhampiran rumahnya di Batu 12, Hulu Langat pada 23 Januari lalu serta menuduh anggota polis yang menangkap dan menggarinya telah membelasah mangsa hingga mati.

Polis bagaimanapun menafikan tuduhan tersebut dengan mengatakan bedah siasat Hospital Serdang mendapati pengawal keselamatan itu mati kerana serangan jantung.

Kematian Sugumar antara kematian yang berlaku melibatkan pasukan polis, antara yang lain adalah mendiang Chang Chin Te awal tahun ini, A. Kugan dan R. Gunasegaran pada 2009; anggota polis menembak remaja 14 tahun Aminulrasyid Amzah pada 2010 dan beberapa lagi kes tembakan polis yang membawa kematian sejak dua tahun ini.-malaysian insider

Dr Pornthip says Putrajaya not happy with her...

Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand has said she declined to perform a second autopsy on security guard C. Sugumar as the Malaysian government was not happy with her previous work in the death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock.

Sugumar’s family lawyer N. Surendran said last Tuesday that the Thai forensic pathologist made the sudden about-turn after he announced that she was due to arrive next Wednesday for the post-mortem on Sugumar, who allegedly died from police brutality last month. 

Dr Pornthip (picture) told The Malaysian Insider via email yesterday that the deputy to the permanent secretary of Thailand’s Ministry of Justice (MOJ) had informed her of a message from the Malaysian government that it was “not happy with my work, especially in (the) case of TBH (Teoh Beng Hock).”

Dr Pornthip had observed Teoh’s second post-mortem and testified at both a coroner’s inquest and before a royal commission that foul play was likely involved in the DAP aide’s mysterious death at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) Selangor headquarters in 2009.

The royal commission subsequently concluded that Teoh was driven to suicide after aggressive and relentless interrogation by three MACC officers.

“I told the lawyer that I’m (a) government officer under (the) Ministry of Justice that need(s) permission from (the) permanent secretary,” said Dr Pornthip, who is the director of Thailand’s Central Institute of Forensic Science, which is under the MOJ. Dr Pornthip stressed that she needed to have the authority to perform the autopsy on Sugumar without any limitations, but did not specify if the MOJ had prohibited her from doing so. 

“Please send my message to your people that I’ve never wanted to (be) involved in politics. I understand that each country have (sic) their own justice system, but there should be no barrier for the people to seek justice,” she said.

She added that she would send The Malaysian Insider the document from the MOJ later.

Dr Pornthip is well known in Thailand for clashing with the authorities, especially for alleging police killings during then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s anti-drug campaign in 2003.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has ordered a forensic report on Sugumar after the 39-year-old’s death was raised at a Cabinet meeting.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai was directed to oversee the forensic report after MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel, who is also a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, had raised the security guard’s death during the Cabinet meeting. 

Several witnesses who saw Sugumar collapse on a street near his home in Batu 12, Hulu Langat on January 23 have accused the policemen who arrested him of beating up the man, together with the help of a mob, after he was handcuffed.

The police have denied the allegations, pointing out that the initial post-mortem by Serdang Hospital showed that Sugumar had died of a heart attack.

Sugumar’s death joins a list of other alleged police killings like the custodial deaths of Chang Chin Te earlier this year as well as A. Kugan and R. Gunasegaran in 2009; the deadly police shooting of 14-year-old schoolboy Aminulrasyid Amzah in 2010; and various other fatal police shootings in the past two years.-malaysia insider





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