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JOHOR BARU: A 37-year-old businessman was acquitted of a drug possession charge after a High Court here ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case against him.
P. Kiran Kumar was acquitted on Monday (March 1) after the court ruled that the prosecution had failed to provide credible evidence on the charge against him as well as contradictory statements made by the witnesses.
According to the charge sheet, Kiran was in possession of 34.9gm of methamphetamine at a supermarket in Seri Alam at about 7.10pm on July 1,2018.
The act is an offence under Section 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act and punishable under Section 39A(2) of the same Act, which carries a jail term of up to five years and 10 strokes of the cane.
KULAI: Five businessmen were charged at the Magistrate’s Court here with the murder of a car repossessor whose body was found on the North-South Expressway.
The accused Choo Zhi Jie, 18, Kong King Xiang, 23, P. Shanker Rao, 24, Ng Cheng Peng, 30, Ng Cheng Ket, 31, nodded after the charge was read to them via a video conference call.
It was understood that the five had been placed under Covid-19 quarantine at the Kulai district police headquarters lock-up.
According to the charge sheet read before Magistrate Sharifah Maleeha Syed Hussin, the five accused and another person still at large committed the offence at KM40.2 of the North-South Expressway near here at 12.30am on Dec 20.
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