PETALING JAYA: The process to exhume the body Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan is being carried out at Kota Damansara Muslim Cemetery in Seksyen 9 here after the Court of Appeal dismissed the application by Nazrin’s widow Samirah Muzaffar to postpone it.
The three-panel judge led by Judge Datuk Mohtarudin Baki unanimously made the decision after rejecting the appeal by Samirah, 43, and retained the Shah Alam High Court’s order to give the authority to the police to conduct the second post-mortem to identify Nazrin’s cause of death.
“An inquest application cannot be processed if the results and complete report of the investigation are not submitted to the Magistrate.
“Therefore, I retain the order under Section 329 (3) which provides full authority to the police to conduct the investigation to identify Nazrin’s real cause of death," he said.
As of 10.40am, the entrance to the cemetery was still cordoned off by the police who arrived as early as 8.30am together with several officers and personnel from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital Forensic and Pathology Department.
Also present were religious officers from Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) and Selangor Mufti Department.
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 mobile phone.
Police have since reclassified the case as murder.
On Sept 4, Samirah 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.
Earlier last month, Nazrin’s brother, Dr Malek Hassan requested for a second post-mortem. State Criminal Investigations Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Fadzil Ahmat 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.