On July 18, it was reported that a decision would be given today. However, the parties continued with oral submissions today before Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh.

The court then set Oct 29 for a decision on the application.

At a press conference held at the Kuala Lumpur court complex, Ramkarpal Singh, the lawyer representing the family, said there is nothing left for the parties to do but to wait for the court’s decision.

“We hope for a favourable decision,” he said.

Beng Hock’s parents, Teoh Leong Hwee and Teng Shuew Hoi, had sought a court order to compel the inspector-general of police to carry out a complete investigation into their son’s death.

The government, the IGP and the Bukit Aman criminal investigation department director have been named as respondents in the application.

The High Court had, on June 16, 2022, granted the family leave to file an application for judicial review, six months after the application was filed.

Beng Hock, then a political aide to Selangor executive councillor and DAP’s 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 the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, which had its Selangor headquarters on the 14th floor of the building then.

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 previously recorded an out-of-court settlement, in which the family was awarded RM600,000 in damages for negligence.

A royal commission of inquiry in 2011 determined that Beng Hock had been driven to suicide by MACC’s aggressive questioning.