KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Three friends caught travelling in one car returning from the breaking of fast pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here on Tuesday (April 28) to a charge of defying the movement control order (MCO).
Magistrate Fardiana Haryanti Ahmad Razali fined two of them, aged 19 and 20, RM1,000 each in default of a month’s jail.
She set bail of RM1,000 in one surety for the other accused, aged 16, pending sentencing on June 11 while waiting for a probation report.
They were caught in Wangsa Maju here at 10.15 pm last April 25 and were charged with moving from Kampung Datuk Keramat to Jalan Perusahaan Ringan, Off Jalan Kelang, Setapak, in an infected area, thus flouting Regulation 11(1) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020, which is enforced under MCO.
They were among 52 people, aged between 16 and 60, who were charged with defying the MCO in three Magistrate’s Courts here today.
The other 49 individuals, including six women, also pleaded guilty and were either sentenced to 14 days’ jail or fined between RM500 and RM1,000 in default of jail of two weeks or a month.
They included 19 foreign nationals, comprising Indonesian, Bangladeshi, Myanmar, Nepalese, Iraqi and Nigerian.
Those sentenced to jail were ordered to serve their sentence from the date of arrest between April 16 and 25.
In the Selayang Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate Nik Mohd Fadli Nik Azlan meted out the maximum RM1,000 fine to Yus Izuan, 34, for the offence.
The man claimed he left home at 5pm on April 25 to make some delivery and on his return trip found his motorcycle having run out of gas.
“When I got to the petrol station it was closed, and I slept in front of the counter at the station until 4am (the following day). I then walked, while pushing my motorcycle until the roadblock and was arrested by the police, ” he told the court.
The man was caught at a roadblock under the Batu Caves-Sri Gombak bridge in Gombak at 5am on April 26.
In the same court, a 41-year-old man was sentenced to a month’s jail for the offence.
He was caught loitering at Jalan 15 Taman Sri Melati, in Gombak, at 12.15 am on April 26. – Bernama
