GOPAL's Death..

Regarding on the controversy over the death of GOPAL four years ago, I think this case was overly reacted by the people who did not know the truth behind it. 

The suspect was 22 years old young adult with the name of A.Gopal was detained for suspected in car robbery after being arrested by the police in Subang Jaya.  At that time, his family is claiming he was tortured in a case which has set off an emotional response from an Indian community which has grown suspicious of alleged police victimization.

Gopal was died on 20 January 2009 while under arrest for suspicion of car robbery.  The controversy of his death brings a lot of speculation among Malaysian including almost raises the sensitive issue of races in Malaysia.  It is because he was died in the jail and proven death caused by traumatically injured through beaten by the police.

Honestly speaking, in term of law view, this cases may be right for the death of Gopal which was still in detained.  However, from the personal view, I think the act of the police might be wrong, but the result of the court seems imbalance and not right.  It is because Gopal was already a criminal and he was a wrong person.

For this case, his family had believed that Gopal had been tortured to death while in a police custody and tried to bring it to the face of the law.  Then, his case was later classified as murder by the Attorney –General.

After the first and second autopsy, the resulted of this case was bringing winning situation to Gopal.  The court was awarded his mother RM851, 700 in assault and battery, false imprisonment, and misfeasance.

The payment to his mother for Gopal’s false imprisonment also seems to be a huge total of number.  It is because Gopal still a criminal in the eye of his victims indeed.  As a mother, she will always back up her son, but the truth is, once he become a criminal, he must get fined and punished.  For me, the death of Gopal already become his punishment.

The death of Gopal does not really make sense to be a big issue and he become a hero. This is wrong.  Even though he died in the jail, it did not make he is the fully victim in this cases.  How about his wrongdoing and how about his victims of car robbery? Don't we think that this issue of him being a criminal also should be risen up instead of forgetting it?