KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here Friday upheld the conviction and sentence meted out by a lower court against three men for faking the death of a wanted criminal, Michael Soosai.

Michael Soosai

In upholding the conviction and sentence, judge Kamardin Hashim dismissed the appeal by former Kuala Lumpur Hospital attendant K. Subramaniam, 36, scrap metal trader V. Sanjeev Kumar, 37, and J. Kumaresan, 31, on grounds that there was no merit in their appeal.

He ordered the three men to serve their jail sentences beginning Friday.

However, lawyer Datuk Naran Singh, representing the three men, applied for a stay pending an appeal at the Court of Appeal.

Kamardin allowed the application.

On July 8, 2010, the three men were sentenced to four years' jail and fined RM15,000 each by the Sessions Court after they were found guilty of falsifying the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary records, Soosai's death certificate, and the burial permit.

They were sentenced to four years' jail each and fined RM5,000 on each count, in default a year's jail.

Mohamad Sekeri also sentenced them to another two years' jail each on the fourth charge of cheating Dr Wan Mohamed Zamri Wan Nawawi, 45, by inducing him to issue the death certificate for Soosai at the HKL mortuary between 11am and 3pm on Sept 12, 2003.

They were ordered to serve the jail sentence concurrently.

Deputy public prosecutor Syed Faisal Syed Amir prosecuted. - Bernama

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