“The post-mortem is necessary to ensure police will be able to obtain additional information and evidence needed to complete the probe into Zara’s death,” it said in a statement today.

The AGC said that after reviewing the preliminary report by the police into the teenager’s death, it found a need for the matter to be investigated further.

On Wednesday, the AGC had said it returned the preliminary report by the police on Zara’s death to the authorities so that they could complete their probe.

Attorney-General Dusuki Mokhtar said they had issued specific instructions to the police, which meant there were a few things that needed to be complied with.

Zara was found unconscious at 4am on July 16 after she allegedly fell from the third floor of her school’s hostel in Papar, Sabah.

She died at Queen Elizabeth I Hospital in Kota Kinabalu the following day.

Sabah police commissioner Jauteh Dikun had previously said they had not ruled out the possibility that she had been bullied.