The family’s spokesman, S Dayalan, said the investigating officer recently met with the 11-year-old’s mother, AD Mogahana Selvi, to find out about the boy’s disabilities.

“They wanted to know who informed the parents that the boy was an OKU (disabled person). I have also received information that they have obtained the boy’s records from Year 1 to Year 5,” he told a press conference.

“I suspect they want to suggest the possibility that the boy was an OKU even before the incident.

“What about the boy’s heat exhaustion incident? They are not probing that, but rather focussing on his past.”

According to the family’s lawyer, Dinesh Muthal, they discovered that the previously scheduled doctor had been replaced during the boy’s hospital appointment on May 30.

“The doctor said because of the police case, she has to postpone further assessment of the child’s disabilities to two months later,” he said.

At the previous press conference, the family said the boy had been assessed as being disabled by doctors at Ampang Hospital. The parents were in the process of obtaining an OKU card for him.

Dinesh also said if the boy had been a disabled person before the incident, it would be unlikely that the school was unaware of this since Year 1.

“From what we gathered from our sources, the boy was only weak in the Bahasa Melayu subject,” he said, claiming that the school once suggested to the parents that they transfer him to a Tamil school due to his weak proficiency in Bahasa Melayu.

Dayalan said the parents on Saturday had filed a police report against the doctor for delaying the process of obtaining an OKU card for their son and another report against the teacher for interfering with witnesses.

The parents also want Bukit Aman to assign a “more competent” investigating officer to the case.

Dayalan added that they submitted a memorandum to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the education ministry this morning to seek justice for the boy.