Court postpones findings of custodial death inquest

Court postpones findings of custodial death inquest

It is still reviewing the evidence in the K Roopan case, says family lawyer Shashi Devan.

K Roopan’s family lawyer T Shashi Devan (left) told reporters that the court is still reviewing the evidence in the case.
SHAH ALAM:
The sessions court here has postponed the delivery of the findings from its inquest into the death in custody of K Roopan to Aug 30.

T Shashi Devan, the family lawyer, told FMT that the court was still reviewing the evidence, including the pathology report.

The inquest, which ended in May last year, heard testimony from more than 25 witnesses and sought to clarify the circumstances of Roopan’s death in June 2021.

Roopan was serving time in Kajang Prison after being convicted in 2017 of a triple murder at his neighbour’s house in Dengkil in 2013 when he was 17.

He died of a pulmonary embolism on June 21, 2021, a day after he was discharged from Kajang Hospital where he had been administered a D-dimer test to check if he had a blood-clotting disorder.

The court previously heard that a normal D-dimer reading would be 0.5, whereas Roopan’s was 17.97.

At a hearing in February last year, Shashi said the abnormal D-dimer reading alone should have prompted a CT scan to rule out a possible pulmonary embolism. However, that was not done.

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