PUTRAJAYA: An unemployed man was sentenced to 12 months in prison and one stroke of the cane by a Magistrate’s Court here on Friday (Oct 10) for cheating a man over a bank loan approval. Magistrate Irza Zulaikha Rohanuddin imposed the sentence on Muhammad Nabilq Saparuddin, 34, after he pleaded guilty. The father of five was charged with...
KLANG: A 22-year-old student accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and setting fire to her body in Sungai Besar, Selangor, two years ago maintained his guilty plea at the High Court here on Monday (Sept 29). Sinar Harian reports that defence lawyer Muhammad Nor Tamrin, representing Muhammad Fakrul Aiman Sajali, told the court that his client...
SEREMBAN: Eleven individuals were fined RM3,000 each in default six months' jail by a Magistrate's court here after they pleaded guilty to committing criminal conspiracy by inducing others to apply for nonexistent loans. They did not contest the charge after it was read to them separately before Magistrate Nurul Saqinah Rosli on Monday (Sept 8). Willie Ngam...
SEPANG: A retail assistant has been fined RM14,000 here for producing and sharing videos with offensive content on her Twitter account three years ago. Sessions judge Ahmad Fuad Othman handed down the sentence on Siti Amiza Baharuddin, 28, on Monday (Aug 25) after she admitted to two charges. The court fined her RM7,000 in default six months'...
MIRI: Two men have been sentenced to six months’ jail each for stealing electricity to power cryptocurrency mining operations. Sim Khiok Leng, 62, changed his plea to guilty during case management at the Sessions Court on Tuesday (Aug 5), where he was charged under Section 33(5) of the Electricity Ordinance (Chapter 50). According to the facts of...
IPOH: A headmistress in Teluk Intan was fined RM10,000 in default one month in jail by the Sessions Court here for using a forged document to buy equipment for her primary school in 2021. Rosnah Mat Zain, 57, who was not represented, admitted to an alternative charge under Section 471 of the Penal Code, punishable under...
IPOH: A 38-year-old p-hailing rider pleaded guilty in a Magistrate's Court here Wednesday (Aug 30) to making a false bomb threat last week. Magistrate S Punitha then ordered Mohammad Nasriq Samsudin to serve a day in jail and fined him RM4,000 in default five months' jail on Wednesday (Aug 30). The charge, framed under Section 507 of...
IPOH: A 48-year-old contract worker who threatened his mother with a pair of scissors has been jailed for eight months by a Magistrate's Court here. V Kumaran pleaded guilty after charges under Sections 506 and 323 of the Penal Code were read together with Section 326A of the same Code before Magistrate S Punitha on Wednesday...
IPOH: An unemployed man's wife informed the Magistrate's Court here of her intention to retract a police report against her husband, who had threatened her earlier this month, for the sake of their young family. S. Premlata, 36, told Magistrate Jesseca Daimis that they still have two young children to care for and she would post...
GEORGE TOWN: A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court here Wednesday (Aug 9) to two charges of attempted murder for causing injury to a 44-day-old infant and three-year-old toddler. Unemployed Mohammad Azmin Hamanullah entered the plea before Sessions judge Mazdi Abdul Hamid. For the first charge, he was said to have attempted to murder the...
