Kedah Criminal Investigation Department chief Mior Farid Al Athrash Wahid said the case was being investigated for negligence, under Section 304A of the Penal Code which carries a maximum two years’ jail or a fine, or both, on conviction.
“I urge the public not to make any speculation and to let the police conduct the investigation,” he said today.
Police took about one-and-a-half hours from 9.25am to exhume Nur Aliya Syifa Murad’s remains at Kampung Masjid, Kubang Rotan Muslim cemetery here, after securing an order from the magistrate’s court yesterday.
The remains were sent to Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital for a post-mortem.
In the incident round 5.30pm on Friday, Nur Aliya Syifa’s father was sharpening the blade of his lawn mower when a piece of it broke and fatally hit the child in the chest.
She died while being treated at the hospital.
Meanwhile, the victim’s uncle, Fadzil Abdul Rahim, 50, said his family was informed by police about the exhumation around 5pm yesterday.
“They conducted the process because the hospital did not do any post-mortem earlier. This is required by the law so we have to abide by it. I hope the re-burial would be done properly,” he said.
He further urged the public to consider the feelings of the victim’s grieving parents and refrain from making speculations on social media.
The victim’s mother, Sabda Abdul Rahim, 41, fainted several times at the cemetery and was eventually escorted away by family members while her father, Murad Othman@Aziz, 40, was seen being comforted by relatives.