KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 -- The police have arrested the husband of a woman who was found dead after being thrown out of a van along the Kesas Highway near the Awan Besar rest area.

Cheras district police chief ACP Aidil Bolhassan today said the 50-year-old Malaysian man of Chinese ethnicity was arrested at 6pm yesterday, and the case is now being investigated under Section 304A of the Penal Code.

Section 304A covers the offence of causing death by negligence, involving anyone who causes any person's death by doing any rash act or negligence act not amounting to culpable homicide. It is punishable by up to two years' jail or fine or both.

Based on preliminary investigations, Aidil said the husband admitted to being involved in the case and ...