The lawyer for the mother of deceased Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) cadet Syamsul Haris Shamsudin accused the Health Ministry’s health director-general, Dr Mahathar Abd Wahab, of lying.

Naran Singh disputed Mahathar’s earlier statement that Syamsul’s first post-mortem was not conducted by a medical officer (MO) from the Kota Tinggi Hospital in Johor.

The MO in question had actually...