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

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

Police also clarified that the four 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 in the probe into the death of Zulfarhan, 21, an electrical engineering student at UPNM who died on June 1, after allegedly being tortured.

The four Uniten students were released on police bail after the seven-day remand order on them expired yesterday. However, the remand on the other 32 has 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.

On behalf of the students and staff of Uniten, Kamal Nasharuddin expressed sympathy to Zulfarhan’s family over the young man’s death and said he hoped Allah would give them the strength to get through this difficult time.