SHAH ALAM, Sept 4 — The High Court has set November 20 to decide on an application to exhume the body of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Shah Alam Reserve Officers' Training Unit (Palapes) cadet Muhammad Amir Rusyadi Muhammad Zaidi, who died during training on November 13 last year.
Judge Roszianayati Ahmad set the date after the Home Ministry (KDN) and the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC), as respondents, requested time to file an affidavit-in-reply to the application by Rusyaidi's father Muhamad Zaidi Abdul Rahman, 53.
She also set October 10 for the respondents to file the affidavit-in-reply, and October 24 for the filing of the rejoinder affidavit.
Both parties are to file their written submissions on or before November 7, while the decision is set for November 20.
Zaidi, represented by lawyer Tun Laila Tun Rafaee, filed the application to enable an order to be issued to exhume his son’s remains and an order to compel forensic experts from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital to conduct a post-mortem on the body.
“The third order is (to compel) the forensic expert to issue the autopsy results one month after the autopsy is conducted.
“Another order is for the Director General of the Criminal Investigation Division to appoint a new team from the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters to take over the investigation and (fifth) an order for an inquest to be conducted to investigate the actual cause of Muhammad Amir Rusyaidi’s death,” said Tun Laila.
Present at today’s proceedings were senior Federal counsel Azroul Hisham Azulan, representing the Home Ministry (first respondent) and Selangor Director of Public Prosecutions Kalmizah Salleh, representing Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar (second respondent).
Syamsul, 22, died during training at the Army Combat Training Centre in Ulu Tiram, Johor, on July 28.
The Johor police had said that a post-mortem found no signs of criminal injury, but the deceased's mother, Ummu Haiman Bee Daulatgun, 45, called for an inquiry after finding “mysterious bruises” on her son’s body.
On August 26, the Shah Alam High Court ordered that Syamsul’s grave at the Kampung Rinching Ulu Muslim Burial Grounds in Semenyih be exhumed to allow a second post-mortem within 14 days.
