KUANTAN (Bernama): The High Court here increased the fine of RM100 meted out to a youth to RM1,000, for violating the movement control order by leaving his house to carry his girlfriend’s body to a garage near her home after being involved in a road accident last year.
Judge Datuk Zainal Azman Ab Aziz made the ruling after allowing the prosecution’s appeal against the RM100 fine imposed on the 17-year-old by the Rompin Magistrate s Court on July 16 last year, after he pleaded guilty to violating the MCO by being outside the house at 3.15am on April 12 last year.
13 Jan 2021 / 22:02 H.
KUANTAN: The High Court here today increased the fine of RM100 meted out to a youth to RM1,000, for violating the Movement Control Order (MCO) by leaving his house to carry his girlfriend’s body to a garage near her home, after being involved in a road accident last year.
Judge Datuk Zainal Azman Ab Aziz made the ruling after allowing the prosecution’s appeal against the RM100 fine imposed on the 17-year-old by the Rompin Magistrate’s Court on July 16, last year, after he pleaded guilty to violating the MCO by being outside the house at 3.15 am on April 12 last year.
PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): Employers are required to provide quarantine centres to isolate their foreign workers who are confirmed Covid-19 positive, says Datuk Seri M. Saravanan.
By: Jo Ann Mool
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Kota Kinabalu: A fishmonger was slapped with RM500 fine or one-day jail for breaking the standard operating procedures (SOP) of Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) for not wearing a mask or providing a body temperature gauge at his premises.
Silih Gambus, 52, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Jessica Ombou in Tuaran to committing the offence at 4.15pm on Oct 25, 2020 at Rugading Commercial Centre, Tuaran.
Silih had violated Rule 11(1) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020, which is punishable under Rule 11(1) of the same Regulations, which carries a fine of up to RM1,000 or a jail term for not more than six months, or both, on conviction.