P-hailing rider gets jail and fine for bomb hoax call

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...

Contract worker jailed eight months for threatening mum with scissors

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...

Duo fined RM10,000 each for stealing solar street lamps in Sibu

SIBU: Two individuals have been fined RM10,000 in default one year's jail each by the Magistrate's Court for stealing three units of solar street lamps on Tuesday (Aug 8). The accused, Tan Jin Hua, 32, and Lau Sie Heng, 36, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Flavian Edward Henry for the offence under Section 379 of the Penal...

‘Dr Ganja’ escapes gallows, gets nine years’ jail

SHAH ALAM: A retired soldier known as "Dr Ganja" escaped the gallows after the High Court amended the 16 charges against him for trafficking 77.48493kg and 14.647 litres of drugs to possession. Captain (R) Amiruddin @ Nadarajan Abdullah, 64, also faced 18 counts of cultivating marijuana plants, four counts of possessing marijuana and one for ingesting...

Woman who had to give birth in jail acquitted in drug case

Woman who had to give birth in jail acquitted in drug case

SEREMBAN: A 34-year-old woman who had to deliver and raise her youngest child while in jail after being charged with drug trafficking two years ago was acquitted and discharged by the High Court here. Judge Datin Rohani Ismail acquitted R. Devaki after the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against her. "After perusing evidence by...