Justice Wan Afrah Wan Ismail allowed the application to exhume Mohammad Shahril Sugumaran Abdullah’s body buried at the Kampung Bendahara cemetery in Gombak on Monday.
The judge also allowed another application last week by the next-of-kin of Shahril and S Uvarajan to conduct an inquest over their deaths.
Uvarajan, 22, who was cremated, and Shahril, 26, died in a police shoot-out along the Selayang-Kepong Highway on Aug 19.
Selangor CID Chief Deputy Commissioner Mohd Adnan Abdullah had said police noticed them acting suspiciously near the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) and a chase ensued.
The two allegedly rammed into a police car and fired several shots at policemen, forcing them to return fire.
Lawyer M Visvanathan, who is appearing for the families of the two deceased, said the post-mortem on Shahril would be conducted at the University Malaya Medical Centre here as soon as possible.
“Shahril’s family members applied for the exhumation and post-mortem as the first post-mortem report did not state the cause of death,” he told FMT.
Shahril’s ex-fiancee, Razilah Bibi Abdul Rashied, and sister G Yasotha were the applicants in the court proceeding while Uvarajan’s mother, N Thanalatchmy, was another applicant.
Visvanathan said the bodies of the two were initially sent to the Selayang Hospital and the death certificates stated that they succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds.
“The bodies were later taken to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for a post-mortem, but the outcome of the cause of death was not provided,” he said, adding that this was the reason the family sought legal redress.
Furthermore, he said, the deputy public prosecutor did not apply to a coroner for an inquest into their deaths.