The MP for Bukit Gelugor, Ramkarpal Singh, said the case must not be allowed to fade away merely because an agreement had been reached between the family of Chin Khoon Sing and Beijing Urban Construction Group.
Chin died when a crane hook fell onto her car on the road beside the building site for the Royal Pavilion Hotel near Bukit Bintang.
Ramkarpal said the agreement did not exonerate BUCG from any liability in the case, and that BUCG owed a duty of care to Chin and the public as a whole, “particularly since its operations were at a highly crowded and congested area in the heart of Kuala Lumpur”.
In a statement made in George Town today, he said other parties must also be held responsible if the crane equipment owner and crane operators were negligent or the equipment used were faulty.
“Crane hooks do not simply fall from the sky,” he said.
He said it was highly suspicious how the crane operator was able to operate the machine after permitted operating hours and beyond the permitted operating zone as previously reported.
He called for public disclosure of the findings of investigations by the police and others such as the Department of Occupational Safety and Health.