{"id":37596,"date":"2014-04-16T22:47:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=37596"},"modified":"2014-04-16T22:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:47:48","slug":"karpal-singh-passes-away-in-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/karpal-singh-passes-away-in-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Karpal Singh passes away in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RIP-KARPAL-650x400.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7938\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"RIP-KARPAL-650x400\" src=\"http:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RIP-KARPAL-650x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IPOH, 17 APR: Former DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh passed away in a road accident in the North South highway at KM301.6 near Gopeng, Perak at 1.30am earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirm that the Toyota Alphard that the Bukit Gelugor MP was travelling in collided with a lorry that was changing lanes without signalling. Karpal died on the spot as did his long-time aide Michael Cornelius. Also travelling in the same vehicle were Karpal&#8217;s son, Ram Karpal, and the driver who were both injured.<\/p>\n<p>Karpal, who would have turned 74 this June, was known as &#8220;The Tiger of Jelutong&#8221; for his unflinching stand and uncompromising principles which he defended in Parliament or as a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 March Karpal was forced to resign as DAP National Chairman when he was convicted under the Sedition Act and fined RM4,000 for remarks he made during the Perak Constitutional Crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Karpal leaves behind his widow, Gurmit Kaur and five children including Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo and Datuk Keramat State Assemblyman Jagdeep Singh Deo.<\/p>\n<p>Karpal was born in George Town, Penang on 28 June 1940 and received his early education in St Xavier&#8217;s Institution, going on to read law in the National University of Singapore. He was called to the Bar in 1969 and joined DAP the following year, soon becoming one of the most prominent and recognisable figures in the party.<\/p>\n<p>In 1978 Karpal won the Jelutong Parliamentary seat, which he held until 1999. He had previously been detained under the Internal Security Act and Ops Lalang in October 1987. Over the course of his almost four-decade-long law career, Karpal appeared in many high profile cases, including defending opposition lawyer Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has lost an illustrious statesman whose life was dedicated to public service and the pursuit of justice. The Rocket salutes the Tiger of Jelutong and we convey our deepest condolences to his family. -The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPOH, 17 APR: Former DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh passed away in a road accident in the North South highway at KM301.6 near Gopeng, Perak at 1.30am earlier this morning. Police confirm that the Toyota Alphard that the Bukit Gelugor MP was travelling in collided with a lorry that was changing lanes without signalling. Karpal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}