A SPECIAL committee to look into the death of firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim in 2018 will include a senior consultant forensic pathologist from Penang General Hospital, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Parliament) Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

Wan Junaidi, who heads the special committee, announced the appointment of Dr Bhupinder Singh in a statement earlier today.

Bhupinder previously sat on the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) examining the death of Teoh Beng Hock.

The committee includes Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin, Housing and Local Government Minister Reezal Merican Naina Merican, Attorney-General Idrus Harun, and Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani.

Expertise on the committee is provided by Universiti Malaya senior consultant histopathologist Prof Dr Looi Lai Meng, criminologist Prof Dr M Sundramoorthy, former Court of Appeal judge Kamardin Hashim, as well as two Bukit Aman senior officers: Azari Abd Rahman and Mohammad Abd Hamid.

“We will present our findings and recommendations to the cabinet within six months from the date this special committee was formed,” he said.

The committee was formed on October 29 after a cabinet meeting.

Adib was an emergency medical rescue services member at Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue Station. He suffered serious injuries during a riot outside Seafield Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in USJ 25, Subang Jaya, on November 27, 2018, and later died on December 17, 2018, after 21 days at the National Heart Institute.

On September 27, 2019, the coroner’s court ruled that Adib’s death was due to a criminal act perpetrated by more than two unidentified assailants.

On July 13, 2020, former inspector-general of police Abdul Hamid Bador said that no reliable eyewitness had been found. – November 13, 2021.