Desperate for help and on the verge of becoming homeless, handicapped labourer P Balan has turned to the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) to resolve his predicament.

The bank had auctioned off his home in February in a purportedly speedy manner, after a freak accident left the wielder paralysed waist-down and unable to repay his housing loans.

A metal column had crushed Balan, 37, while he was at work on June 22 last year, damaging his spinal cord and making it impossible for him to continue his job.

Now, he and his two sisters, as well as his sister's three children, may be thrown out of the house that they are now occupying illegally.