Magistrate: I instructed Balamurugan to be sent to hospital immediately

PUTRAJAYA: The Magistrate who rejected the remand application for S. Balamurugan, who died in police custody on Feb 8, had instructed that the detainee be taken to the hospital immediately.

Magistrate Nik Nur Amalina Mat Zaidan from the Klang magistrate's court said she had told officer Muhammad Nabil Abd Manaf, who submitted the remand application, to take Balamurugan, 44, to the hospital upon seeing his condition.