KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19 -- Police have remanded a 51-year-old man from August 19 to 21 for allegedly spreading false information on TikTok about the death of student Zara Qairina.

The suspect, believed to be behind the account @berjuanguntukzara, was arrested on Monday night. Police also seized a mobile phone said to have been used in the case.

The video in question, titled "Revealing Zara's post-mortem findings", went viral on August 15 and contained an audio recording that described her death as a planned murder. Police said the two-minute clip misrepresented the facts of the ongoing investigation.

Police said the case is being investigated under the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505(b) of the Penal Code for statements likely to cause pub...