SHAH ALAM: The Sessions Court today sentenced a police constable to three years jail after finding him guilty of causing hurt to a police detainee, V. Kugan, three years ago.
Judge Aslam Zainuddin found V. Navindran, 32, guilty on two alternative charges of causing hurt to Kugan, then 23, a suspect in a luxury car theft case, at an interrogation room at the Taipan USJ police station in Subang Jaya near here between 7 am and 4 pm on Jan 16, 2009.
Kugan had died while in police custody.
Section 330 of the Penal Code under which Navindran was charged provides for a jail term of up to seven years and a fine upon conviction. -Bernama