Judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman allowed an application by LS Leonard, the lawyer for Nazrin’s sister-in-law and her husband.

The couple, aged 39 and 41, had been detained following a remand order issued by the Petaling Jaya magistrate’s court last Monday.

Karim said the four-day remand was too long and police did not provide strong grounds to detain them.

“To remand them for that period, there has to be relevant and solid grounds. Any further action, as stated in the grounds given by the police to remand the couple, can be done without the presence of the suspects,” he added.

“As such, the application for a review against the remand order issued by the Petaling Jaya magistrate’s court (assistant) registrar is revised and both of the suspects are ordered to be released after office hours at 5pm today.”

Earlier, Leonard submitted that there was no necessity for both his clients to be held in remand since they had cooperated with the police and had their statements recorded.

“Among the grounds given by the police to remand my clients is to investigate whether they were responsible for spreading the message that Nazrin’s death was caused by an exploding handphone explosion, when the police knew it was not them who did it,” said Leonard, who was assisted by lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik.

The prosecution, conducted by deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Nazneen Zulkifli, submitted that the decision by the magistrate’s court in issuing the four-day remand order against the married couple was valid and in line with Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Prior to this, police had also detained Nazrin’s wife, her ex-husband and his two step-sons to facilitate investigations into the case.

Nazrin, who died in a fire at his home on June 14, was found with 30% burn marks on the upper floor of his double-storey house.

Police reclassified the case as murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code following a forensic investigation by the Fire and Rescue Department.