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PUTRAJAYA, April 28 ― Staple wounds found on the ears of N.
Dharmendran prove that he was tortured by police officers while
being interrogated, the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission
(EAIC) said today.
EAIC chairman Datuk Yaacob Md Sam also rubbished the police’s
claim that the staples had ended up on Dharmendran’s ears in the
process of wrapping up and transferring his body after he died.
“This is a totally illogical, unreasonable explanation,” Yaacob
said of the police’s theory of how the victim’s ears had staples
embedded in them during a press conference at the EAIC headquarters
today.
Yaacob explained that the pathologist report found that both his
right and left ears which were stapled had blood stains on them,
making it impossible for it to have occurred after Dharmendran’s
death.
“This shows that his ears were stapled when he was alive. It
rules out that the staples were made after his death or at the
mortuary,” he said.
While conceding that the stapling of the victim’s ears was not
the cause of death, Yaacob said that the injury on top of the other
52 bruises from blunt force trauma inflicted by the police
eventually led to his death.
“A total of 52 bruises on the deceased caused by a blunt force
object (blunt force trauma) causing acute massive loss of blood
into the tissues causing hypovolemic shock,” he said, referencing
the pathologist report from the Hospital Kuala Lumpur’s Forensic
Department.
