A lawyer representing the families of three men killed in a police shooting in Durian Tunggal, Malacca, has urged the authorities to place state police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar on garden leave immediately.

At a press conference in Petaling Jaya today, lawyer Rajesh Nagarajan said the call was made based on Dzulkhairi’s “completely false and illogical” claims that M Jayashree, the wife of one of the victims, had an extensive criminal record.