KUALA LUMPUR: Family members of those killed in the Durian Tunggal shooting have submitted a memorandum to Bukit Aman, urging for a transparent investigation into the case without interference.
Lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan, representing the families, led them to Bukit Aman at around 10.45am on Saturday (Jan 3) before handing over the memorandum to an officer from the police’s public relations department.
At a press conference before the handover, Rajesh outlined five demands from the family, including immediate suspension of all involved in the case and for arrests to be made.
“Despite the fact that this case has been classified as a murder, not a single police officer has been remanded or arrested. And obviously no one has been charged. This is completely contrary to the police’s own standard procedure,” he said, raising concerns of double standards.
He also called for all those directly involved, including the Melaka police chief, to be removed and transferred.
“At the very least he must be transferred if not suspended,” he said.
Rajesh further alleged that the real scene of the crime was not in Durian Tunggal but along the North-South Expressway, and that if evidence was tampered with, all those involved must be charged as well.
On Nov 24, 2025, Melaka police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Dzulkhairi Mukhtar stated that three criminals, aged 24 to 29, were shot dead after one attacked a policeman with a machete at an oil palm plantation in Durian Tunggal.
The 4am incident left a corporal in his early 30s seriously injured in the left arm.
All suspects, allegedly members of the Durian Tunggal Gang, had reportedly been detected en route to commit robbery. The gang has been linked to 20 cases in Melaka and one each in Negri Sembilan and Selangor, with losses totalling RM1.35mil.
Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohd Khalid Ismail previously said the police received a compact disc (CD) from a suspect’s family member on Dec 6, believed to contain an audio recording of a phone conversation between one of the suspects and his wife before the incident.
