KUALA LUMPUR: Police will facilitate the exhumation of the late Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Reserve Officers’ Training Unit (Palapes) cadet for a second post-mortem as soon as possible.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said there should be no questions or disputes over the matter.
“A decision has been made just like in the Zara case (Zara Qairina Mahathir). Police action will follow.
“It is a serious process that involves many parties; it involves the magistrates, medical team, next of kin, doctors and police in exhuming the body and bringing it to the hospital for the medical experts to dispense their duties.
“So what is the police’s role? It is to ensure that the court decision is carried out.
“There is no need to dispute or question this. It will be done as soon as possible,” he told reporters after closing the Police Special Dialogue III event here today.
It was reported that the High Court has ordered the remains of Syamsul Haris Shamsudin to be exhumed and a second post-mortem be conducted.
Judge Datuk Bhupindar Singh Gurcharan Singh Preet also ruled that the post-mortem of Syamsul, 22, buried at Kampung Rinching Ulu Muslim cemetery, must be carried out under the supervision of the inspector-general of police.
The second order is for a forensic pathologist from Kuala Lumpur Hospital to conduct the post-mortem on the body of Syamsul Haris within 14 days after exhumation, in the presence of forensic expert Datuk Seri Dr Bhupinder Singh and family-appointed lawyer, Datuk Naran Singh, or his representative.
The third order is for the forensic pathologist conducting the post-mortem to issue the report within a reasonable period from the date it is conducted, and a copy of the report is to be given to Messrs Naran Singh and Co.
Bhupinder, however, made no order on the requests for a task force from the federal police to take over investigations into Syamsul Haris’s death and for an inquest into the cause of death.
Syamsul was undergoing training at the Combat Inoculation Firing Range of the Army Combat Training Centre in Ulu Tiram, Johor.
He died on July 28 at Kota Tinggi Hospital in Johor.
Bhupindar, in allowing the exhumation application by Syamsul Haris’s mother, Ummu Haiman Bee Daulatgun, issued the three orders in the interest of justice and in the court exercising its inherent powers.
Ummu Haiman, 45, who was sitting in the public gallery, was seen clasping her hands as she listened attentively to Bhupindar’s decision, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders.
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