KUCHING: A man was acquitted and released by the Sessions Court here on Monday (Jan 12) over a charge of possessing 179.65g of cannabis, three years ago. Aslahuddin Azwan Hud, 31, was cleared after his defence, led by defence attorney Osman Ibrahim, successfully raised reasonable doubt against the prosecution’s case
KUCHING: A man was fined RM1,500 or jailed for two months by the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for assaulting a woman during a dispute. Khairrudin Othman, 39, pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 323 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt to a 31-year-old woman. The offence occurred at
KUCHING: A 19-year-old man was ordered by the Magistrate’s Court here today to be placed on a one-year good behaviour bond with a surety of RM500, with his mother acting as guarantor, for openly engaging in online gambling using his mobile phone. Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nazwa Radzali made the order after
KUCHING: A local man was fined RM500 or sentenced to five days’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today after pleading guilty to possessing equipment believed to be used for criminal activities. Mohd Zulkarnain, 25, from Kampung Semarang, entered his plea before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan. According to the
KUCHING: A 66-year-old café owner was fined RM3,000 or in default six months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court here today for operating an entertainment-centred business without a valid licence from the local authority. Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan imposed the sentence after Binel Noyem pleaded guilty to a charge read
KUCHING: A prisoner had his jail term extended after the Sessions Court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment and one stroke of the cane for possessing a kerambit (small curved hand knife) without lawful purpose. Wan Abdul Rahman, 30, pleaded guilty before Judge Jason Juga to the charge framed under
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here ordered a secondary school student to serve a two-year good behaviour bond for bullying a teenage girl by making criminal threats to stab the victim 300 times and threatening to have others rape the victim. Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Berayan also ordered the 13-year-old boy
KUCHING: A man was fined RM3,000, in default 10 months’ imprisonment, by the Magistrate’s Court here after he pleaded guilty to threatening a supermarket worker with a sickle after his morning greeting went unanswered. The accused, Wan Mazali, 43, entered his guilty plea after the charge was read before Magistrate
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here fined a local man RM2,000 in default four months in prison for threatening to harm his younger brother with a knife during an argument at their home in Petra Jaya last week. The incident reportedly occurred after the 45-year-old ate the chicken that his brother
KUCHING: The Sessions Court here sentenced a drug addict to five years’ imprisonment and one stroke of the cane for possessing a scheduled sharp weapon — a knife — at a primary school without lawful purpose last November. Awang Zulkipli, 44, pleaded guilty before Judge Jason Juga to the charge