The remains of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan were buried at the Kota Damansara Muslim cemetery this morning after a second post mortem was carried out by pathologists at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre. 

The remains were brought back to the grave about 11.30am in a hearse escorted by traffic police officers and immediate family members.

Nazrin’s family members declined to comment.

The body was exhumed last week after Nazrin’s brother lodged a police report on alleged flaws in the first post mortem conducted at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

Nazrin’s siblings demanded that a second autopsy be conducted by an independent pathologist to find out the cause of Nazrin’s death after police classified the case as murder.

The exhumation was challenged by Nazrin’s widow Samirah Muzaffar but her application for a stay was thrown out by the Shah Alam High court.

Nazrin was found dead in his bedroom at home in Mutiara Damansara after the double-storey terrace house caught fire on June 14, a day before Hari Raya.

His family had said that his handphone had exploded, causing the blaze. Cradle Fund also issued a statement saying its CEO was dead of injuries attributed to an exploding handphone being charged next to the bed.

Nazrin’s older brother, Dr Malek Hassan, who saw Nazrin’s body after the first post-mortem, had said he had noticed a wound on the left side of the head that was too big and deep to have been caused by a blunt object like a handphone.

That observation, and with police classifying the case as murder, prompted Dr Malek to lodge a police report two weeks ago urging the authorities to exhume the body for a autopsy.

In the course of the investigations so far, police have arrested Samirah, a senior executive at the Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation, her former husband, their two teenage sons, Nazrin’s sister-in-law and her husband, all on the widow’s side of the family.

All have since been released on bail. – October 15, 2018.