The widow of M Marimuthu, who was shot by police on May 24 this year, has called for a murder investigation to be launched against the police personnel responsible.

Perak police chief Hasnan Hassan had previously said that the 41-year-old Marimuthu was killed in a police shootout in Air Kuning, Tapah, after they had attempted to stop him because his car bore a false registration number.

Lawyer N Surendran, who is representing Marimuthu’s widow R Vaijenthimala, told Malaysiakini that the official postmortem report contradicts the police’s account of the shooting.