BANTING: The Teluk Datok Magistrates’ Court here yesterday extended the remand order for five suspects in the murder of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and disappearance of Indian businessman Allal Kanthan Muthuraja to Oct 8.
REMAND EXTENDED: The main suspect in the murder of cosmetic millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and disappearance of Indian businessman Allal Kanthan Muthuraja being led away by policemen after the hearing.
Magistrate Hurman Hussain issued the order for extension of the remand under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code to enable police to carry out further investigations on the disappearance of Muthuraja.
The five suspects arrived at the court at 9.30am in a police van with tight security and left after the extension of remand order was issued at 10.50am.
This is the fourth time the remand order on them was being extended.
They were first remanded on Sept 12, to facilitate in the investigation of the alleged murders of Sosilawati and three others.
Muthuraja, 34, was reported missing after two Malaysian lawyers had received him at the KL International Airport in Sepang, upon his arrival on Jan 18.
His wife, S Usharani, 24, lodged a missing person report at the Banting police station on Sept 8, and had also given her full statement on the case at the Kuala Langat police headquarters. — Bernama