Court of Appeal dismisses police, govt's bid to overturn RM450,000 damages award in custodial death case

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal to set aside a RM450,000 damages awarded to a widow and her son over the death of her husband in police custody seven years ago.

Lawyer Haresh Mahadevan, representing M. Vimala Devy and her son Thusataran, told Bernama that the three-man bench chaired by Justice Datuk Lee Swee Seng held that there was no good reason to interfere with the finding of facts made by the Judicial Commissioner.