Police recorded a statement from S. Usharani, the wife of missing Indian millionaire businessman Allal Kanthan Muthuraja, at the Kuala Langat police headquarters in Banting at 6pm today.

She was accompanied by Kapar Member of Parliament S. Manikavasagam, who also gave his statement pertaining to the case.

NONE Manikavasagam ( right ) said they were quizzed for about three hours.

“I was asked about my role in helping Usharani on this case,” he told reporters outside the police station.

“At noon (today), I had handed over a handphone belonging to Usharani to Bukit Aman (Federal polce). Also handed over were copies of a police report about her husband's missing, her passport and birth certificate of their child,” he said.

    

He added that Usharani would be continuing her statement at the same police station at 1pm tomorrow.

Usharani, who arrived here on Wednesday, said she expected to return to India on Sunday but might delay it if there were fresh developments in the case.

Meanwhile, Kuala Langat police chief Supt Nordin Manan said the station’s investigation officer had taken possession of Usharani’s handphone from Bukit Aman to assist investigations.

Yesterday, Usharani, who is from Ramapuram, Chennai, had revealed to the press two telephone conversations she had with parties in Malaysia regarding the case.

Case reclassified as murder

Police have re-classified her husband's case from missing person to victim of murder.

    

The development came in the wake of the Banting murders.  

NONE The Banting murders refer to the deaths of cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya ( right ), 47, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsudin, 44, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, and CIMB Bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, who went missing on Aug 30 after they went to Banting, Selangor, over a land deal.

Police believe the same suspects were responsible for these murders.

 

Eight people, including two lawyers, have been rounded up in connection with the case.

Sosilawati and the three are others are believed to have been battered to death, burnt and their ashes thrown into several streams near a farm outside Banting.

    

The farm is believed to be owned by one of the lawyer suspects.

The murders have drawn worldwide attention with a number of foreign television crews camped outside the crime scene to report each development in the case.  

- Bernama