KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — A post-mortem revealed over 61 injuries were inflicted on P. Karuna Nithi who died in police custody, PKR’s N. Surendran (picture) revealed today, but concluded that the cause of death was a “fatty liver”.

“The report shows he was severely beaten and tortured in police custody,” Surendran told reporters at Parliament here.

The PKR vice-president then questioned why no police officer has yet to be arrested over the death of the 43-year-old man at the Tampin district police station in Negri Sembilan on June 1.

The report today was reminiscent of the first post-mortem in the case of A. Kugan, which said that the suspected car thief had died from “water in his lungs” while detained in police custody in 2009, but was later found to be false.The second autopsy on Kugan, however, revealed that he had died from acute renal failure caused by blunt force trauma.

The High Court here ruled last month in a civil suit that Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, who was then the Selangor police chief, was responsible for Kugan’s death.

Surendran said today that the injuries on Karuna Nithi, as revealed by the Seremban Hospital autopsy, were “very serious” and merited an investigation.

“There are a total of almost 61 separate marks of injury... all over his body, the head, chest, abdomen, upper limbs, arms, mid-arms, forearms, shoulder,” said the Padang Serai MP.

“Every part of the body, there’s a beating mark,” he added.

Three police officers have been charged with murder over the custodial death of another man — N. Dhamendran — who died while detained at the city police contingent headquarters here on May 21.