Uniten students released by police to resume studies next week — Vice chancellor

PUTRAJAYA: The four Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten) undergraduates who were released by police on Thursday after being detained to assist investigations into the death of a Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) student, will resume their studies next week, said Uniten vicechancellor Prof Datuk Dr Kamal Nasharuddin Mustapha.

In a statement uploaded on Uniten’s official Facebook site, he said they were now back with their families.

Police also clarified that they were not directly or indirectly involved in causing the death of Naval Cadet Officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, he said .

They were detained along with 32 UPNM students to assist the probe into the death of Zulfarhan, 21, an Electrical Engineering student at UPNM who died on June 1, believed to be due to torture.

The four United students were released on police bail after the seven-day remand order on them expired yesterday, However, the remand on the 32 have been extended to Wednesday.

The victim was sent by some friends to the Serdang Hospital with torture and burn marks, believed to be from a steam iron, on his body. He died at the hospital at 10pm on June 1.

Kamal Nasharuddin on behalf of the students and staff of Uniten also expressed sympathy to Zulfarhan’s family over his death and hoped Allah would give them the strength to get through this difficult time. — Bernama