COMMENT Karpal Singh Deo has been dead for three and half months now, his passing lamented in a plethora of encomiums to his career and eulogies on his life. All justified of course.

The advocacy of the 'Tiger of Jelutong' in a court of law and in the premier arena of the country - Parliament - is said to be sorely missed by hypothetical clients questing after justice and legions of citizens hungering for an egalitarian Malaysia.

But there’s this bit of wisdom about the devil being in the details that now comes to spoil things, including the Deo legacy which underwent an understandable amount of posthumous inflation by reason of the tragic circumstances of his passing and the void it is said to have left in the Malaysian opposition’s advocacy of exigent causes.    

Karpal's driver, C Selvam, who was at the wheel when his car was involved in the accident on April 17 that took two lives - Karpal's and that of his aide and factotum, Michael Cornelius - is languishing in jail for want of a bailor...