KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — DAP urged today the Home Ministry to push the police to find those responsible for former party aide Teoh Beng Hock’s death in 2009 while in custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai said there were no further information on the case’s development since the Court of Appeal made a judgement that “a person or persons were responsible for his death” last September.

“Ten months passed, we have heard no progress. Whether they have finish investigation or what progress, what we know so far… no feedback, no outcome, no further information come from the police,” Tan said in a press conference at the party headquarters here.

“We’d like to urge the Minister of Home Affairs to see that the police do their investigation with utmost effectiveness and efficacy.”

Last week, Teoh’s family members launched a new campaign demanding the Home Ministry to speed up the investigations into the case and bring those responsible for his death to face the court of law.

The Court of Appeal ruled last September that Teoh, a political aide did not commit suicide and directed the Attorney-General’s Chamber (AGC) to reopen investigations into his death while in MACC custody back in 2009.

In response, the AGC said then it would prosecute those responsible for the 30-year-old’s death; noting a “thorough” police investigation into the demise of Teoh after the Royal Commission of Inquiry had pinpointed MACC’s “oppressive, prolonged and aggressive” interrogation.

Putrajaya and MACC had in May this year agreed to pay the Teoh family RM600,000 in damages and RM60,000 in cost, admitting to negligence on their part resulting in Beng Hock’s death.