KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor police today said they have been granted permission to exhume the body of Cradle Fund chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan on Oct 8.
This is to make way for a second post-mortem examination on Nazrin’s body, after his death was reclassified as murder.
State Criminal Investigations Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Fadzil Ahmat said the application for the process was filed last Friday to Petaling Jaya court's Magistrate Nor Arifin Hisham.
“The court issued the order for the exhumation today. The process itself will be carried out on Oct 8,” he said.
Fadzil said police received a report from Nazrin’s brother on Sept 24, who said he was unhappy with the post-mortem report released by Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
“Acting on the report, police will execute the procedure as stipulated under Section 336 of the Criminal Procedure Code.” he said.
On Sept 4, Nazrin’s widow Samirah Muzaffar and her ex-husband were remanded for seven days. Also remanded were Nazrin’s stepsons, aged 14 and 16 on Sept 9.
On Sept 24, Nazrin’s sister-in-law and her husband were remanded for four days to facilitate the murder investigation.
Nazrin died on June 14 in what was earlier reported as having been due to smoke inhalation from a fire caused by an exploding mobile phone in his bedroom at a double-storey semi-detached house in Mutiara Damansara, here.
However, later on it was said that traces of petrol were found on Nazrin’s head, bedframe and his cellphone.
Police have since reclassified the case as murder.