PETALING JAYA: Samirah Muzaffar, the widow of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan, has been released from police custody after her remand expired today.
Samirah, 43, was released at 5pm at the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters here.
On Sept 4, police detained Samirah and her ex-husband, both 43-years-old, before they were remanded for a week to assist in an investigation into Nazrin's death.
Her ex-husband has since been released.
The Petaling Jaya magistrate’s court on Monday extended the remand order against her by another three days.
Her counsel, LS Leonard, told the New Straits Times Press confirmed her release, adding that no charges have been pressed against her.
“Yes, her remand order expired today. We are waiting for the investigating officer to release her,” Leonard said when contacted earlier.
Yesterday, the Shah Alam High Court allowed a review application to revoke the seven-day remand order against Nazrin’s two stepsons.
Judge Datuk Ab Karim Ab Rahman ordered for the two teens, aged 14 and 16, to be freed from remand as of Wednesday evening after they were detained on Sunday.
Nazrin died on June 14 in what was earlier reported as smoke inhalation from a fire caused by an exploding mobile phone in the bedroom of his house in Mutiara Damansara here.
However, traces of petrol were later found on Nazrin’s head, bedframe and his cellphone. Police then reclassified the case as murder.
His teenage stepsons were detained after a puncture wound was found in his head.
It is believed that the wound was caused by an arrow, and that led to the arrest of the two teens and their mother after it was learned that they were involved in archery.