SEPANG: The Magistrate's Court here on Sunday allowed three suspects in the Banting murders to be remanded for six more days until Oct 1 to facilitate police investigations into the case.
Magistrate Hurman Hussain extended the remand order after the suspects, two of them lawyers, were brought to the court separately in three cars under tight police security at 9.35am. They left the court at 11.40am.
Ravi Nekoo, a lawyer representing the two lawyers, told reporters outside the court that the extended remand was to enable the police probe the disappearance of millionaire A. Muthuraja of India who had come to Malaysia on Jan 18.
The Banting murders refers to the deaths of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, 47, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsudin, 44, CIMB Bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, who were reported missing on Aug 30 after they had gone to Banting, Selangor, over a land deal.
On Sept 13, the police confirmed that the four had been killed, their bodies burnt and the ashes thrown into rivers in the vicinity of Ladang Gadong near Banting. The police subsequently detained eight suspects to facilitate investigations. Ravi told reporters the magistrate had asked one of his clients, who claimed to have been beaten by the police in custody, to lodge a police report.
"We will see him (the client) to lodge the report," he said.
source: the star online
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