Senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly said the date was fixed following case management before a deputy registrar of the High Court.
“That (hearing) date was fixed as it is suitable for both parties,” he told FMT.
Leave was granted by the High Court on June 16 last year, six months after the application was filed.
Lawyer Ramkarpal Singh, the current deputy law minister, represented Beng Hock’s father, Teoh Leong Hwee, 75, and mother, Teng Shuw Hoi, 70, at the leave stage.
The parents are seeking a court order to compel the inspector-general of police (IGP) to complete police investigations into their son’s death within a month of a High Court ruling.
The government, the IGP and the Bukit Aman criminal investigation department director were named as respondents in the application.
The couple is also seeking several declarations, including one that the police were negligent in their duty to complete the probe within a reasonable time.
Teng, in her affidavit supporting the judicial review, said the police had failed to complete their investigations into Beng Hock’s death despite an appellate court decision in the family’s favour in 2014.
She said the police had formed three separate task forces – in 2011, 2014 and 2018 – to investigate the death and that the last update on the investigation was communicated to their lawyers in 2021.
In 2014, a three-member Court of Appeal bench ruled that Beng Hock’s death was caused by the act of “a person or persons unknown”, including MACC officers who had questioned him overnight before he was found dead.
The High Court had also recorded an out-of-court settlement in which the family was awarded RM600,000 in damages for negligence.
Beng Hock, the then political aide to Selangor executive councillor and DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on the fifth-floor service corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009.
He had been held there overnight and questioned by MACC, whose Selangor headquarters was on the 14th floor.
A royal commission of inquiry in 2011 held that he was driven to suicide by MACC’s aggressive questioning.