KOTA KINABALU: Lawyers representing the family of 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir have hailed the Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) takeover of her death investigation as a positive step towards justice.
The decision, announced yesterday, fulfils one of four demands the legal team made to the Attorney General’s Chambers on 5 August including reopening the case, appointing experienced investigators from Bukit Aman, exhuming Zara’s remains for a second post-mortem, and holding an inquest.
“This positive development is hoped to unravel the issues surrounding Zara’s death and ultimately prove that there were criminal elements involved,” lawyers Shahlan Jufri, Rizwandean Borhan, and Mohd Luqman Syazwan Zabidi said in a joint statement today.