Home minister: 105 custodial deaths in past 2 years

PARLIAMENT | Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin has provided a breakdown of the 105 people who died while in custody in police lock-up facilities, prisons and immigration detention centres in 2020 and 2021.

He also confirmed that an inquest will be conducted into the custodial death of cow’s milk trader A Ganapathy.

In a Sept 28 parliamentary written reply to...