Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P Uthayakumar ( ISA Detainee ) Seeks Release Claiming Denial Of Medical Treatment. Lawyer P. Uthayakumar today applied to the High Court for his release from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) claiming he was denied medical treatment. His lawyer, N. Surendran, filed the application on the grounds that he was being limited and denied from getting medical treatment for his diabetic condition and was not sent to the National Heart Institute (IJN) for his heart problem. thayakumar, 46, claimed that around mid-February the medication given to him by his fiancee S. Indradevi had run out, and he asked the detention centre officials for the medication which had been prescribed by the Taiping General Hospital.
Uthayakumar claimed that the officials refused to entertain his request and forced him to request to meet the detention centre director six times to facilitate his family to supply the medication. Surendran filed the writ of habeas corpus at the High Court Registry in the Courts Complex in Jalan Duta here at about 11.30 am. Uthayakumar's mother, G. Kalaivani, his fiancee S. Indradevi and Kapar Member of Parliament S. Manikavasagam were with Surendran. Uthayakumar and four others, lawyers M. Manoharan, 46, V. Ganabatirau, 34, R. Kenghadaran, 40, and former bank officer K. Vasantha Kumar, 40, are being detained under the ISA.
November. The Prisons Department in a statement said he was also supplied with various types of medicine for his diabetic condition. The department issued the statement in response to allegations from some quarters that he was being denied proper medical treatment. It said early this month, the home minister had also given permission for Uthayakumar to be brought to the Penang Hospital and the National Heart Institute to undergo health checks by experts.