SHAH ALAM: The High Court has fixed Dec 1 to decide whether an application for a revision of the open verdict in the Teoh Beng Hock inquest should go through a proper hearing.
Senior assistant registrar Khairul Nizam Abu Bakar fixed the date after meeting Gobind Singh Deo, the lawyer representing Teoh’s family and deputy public prosecutor Anas Mahathir here yesterday.
The new hearing date was fixed after Teoh’s family filed a separate revision application on Sept 30.
This follows a withdrawal of the same application by the Attorney-General’s Chambers on Sept 22.
The A-G’s Chambers withdrew the application on grounds that it was filed prior to the setting up of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Teoh’s death.
The commission has since delivered its findings and the A-G’s chambers said there was no longer a need for a revision.
On July 21, the commission released a 124-page report that said Teoh had been driven to commit suicide by aggressive, relentless, oppressive and unscrupulous interrogation by three MACC officers.
DAP political aide Teoh was found dead outside Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, where the MACC headquarters is located, a day after he was interrogated overnight on July 16, 2009.
Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas returned an open verdict on Jan 5, ruling Teoh’s death was neither a suicide nor a homicide.
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