Police officer jailed over custody death

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A Malaysian court on Monday sentenced a police officer to three years in jail over the death of a man in custody, in a closely watched case underscoring complaints of police brutality.

A. Kugan, 22, died in custody in 2009 at a police station where he had been detained on suspicion of stealing luxury cars, sparking uproar among minority ethnic Indians and activists who allege frequent police corruption and abuse.

Constable V. Navindran, who is also an ethnic Indian, was sentenced by a district court outside the capital Kuala Lumpur to three years in jail for causing hurt to Kugan to extort a confession, said his lawyer P.M. Nagarajan.

Another district court had earlier acquitted Navindran, who is in his 30s, of causing grievous hurt. But a high court overturned that verdict and sent the case back to the lower court for Navindran to answer the lesser charge of causing hurt.