Stop police abuse of chain remands, lawyer urges IGP

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Bar Council task force chairman M Ramachelvam says the Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Hamid Bador, should take action.PETALING JAYA: The Inspector-General of Police should take action to stop the police practice of placing criminal suspects under a series of remand orders, says the head of a Bar Council task force.M Ramachelvam said that even though the practice was permissible by law, chain remands were an abuse of powers granted to the police.He called for an investigation by the Enforcement Agencies Integrity Commission into the use of chain remand orders against 18-year-old Mitheswaran Kumar, who was detained several times from Feb 26 to March 11 for police investigations into multiple offences, including burglary and drugs.Ramachelvam said the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) allows a maximum remand of only 7 days for offences punishable with less than 14 years imprisonm…