A day after brushing aside the need to set up a royal commission to investigate the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today said the proposal will be brought up for discussion at the next cabinet meeting.

"The cabinet will study the views and proposals of various people to decide whether such a commission was needed," he was quoted as saying by Bernama .

NONE The cabinet has its weekly meeting on Wednesday.

Muhyiddin yesterday urged the public to remain calm and not overreact to the controversial death of Teoh, who was a special assistant to Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah.

In dismissing suggestions by Pakatan Rakyat leaders for the government to set up a royal commission, Muhyiddin said the police were already probing the death.

"I know the police force will conduct a thorough and transparent investigation as we would not want anybody to cover up the truth," he told journalists.

Teoh’s body was found on Thursday sprawled on the roof of an adjacent building after he had undergone questioning late into the night at the offices of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

He was among four others called to the Selangor MACC office in Shah Alam for questioning in relation to a probe on 12 Pakatan assemblyperson for alleged abuse of their constituency allocations.

There has been growing calls for a royal commission to investigate Teoh’s death.

Yesterday, 17 civil society groups issued a joint statement demanding for an independent investigation into what they called “the first political death” under Najib Abdul Razak’s government.

DPM responds to Pak Lah’s call

Meanwhile, Muhyiddin also said that the government was in the process of reviewing the Internal Security Act (ISA) in responding to former premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s call yesterday that the controversial law be abolished.

The deputy prime minister said that a committee had already been set up to conduct a review on the ISA.

He however added that a decision has yet to be made on whether the ISA would be retained, abolished, amended or if a new act would replace it.

Yesterday, Abdullah said the government should consider abolishing the ISA and replacing it with a new law which places a limitation on the scope of arrest.

According to Abdullah, the ISA provides enormous powers and scope, which he felt could be too wide-ranging in determining what constitutes threats to national security.