TEOH Beng Hock’s parents are taking the police to court over the force’s alleged failure to competently investigate their son’s death from a fall from the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) building in 2009.

Malaysiakini reports that his parents, father Teoh Leong Hwee and mother Teng Shuw Hoi, have filed a leave of application for a judicial review at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on January 4 this year.

The inspector-general of police, the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director, the Royal Malaysia Police and the government are named as first, second, third and fourth respondents in the court filing sighted by Malaysiakini.

Teng, in a supporting affidavit, said police failed to complete the investigation into her son’s death, repeatedly stamped his case with “no further action”, failed to keep the family updated, and were not transparent.

She said police committed these failures despite the Court of Appeal’s unanimous decision in 2014 that her son’s death was the result of “person or persons unknown”.

Teoh was found dead on July 16, 2009, after falling nine storeys out of a window at the Selangor MACC headquarters where he was being questioned overnight. He was then a political aide to Selangor executive councillor and DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah.

Teng, in her affidavit, also said police had been unreasonable in failing to complete the investigation despite outcry in Parliament by lawmakers and by the public, and despite the formation of three separate task forces in 2011, 2014 and 2018 to investigate her son’s death.

The deceased’s parents now want the court to issue a mandamus to compel the IGP to complete the investigation within one month of the High Court’s judgment, if the judicial review is allowed.

They also want the court to declare the respondents as negligent and in violation of their duties.

Prior to the appellate court’s judgment in 2014, a Royal Commission of Inquiry in 2011 found that Teoh was driven to commit suicide due to interrogation by the MACC.

The judicial review leave application is fixed for hearing before judge Noorin Badaruddin in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on June 16. – March 23, 2022.