KOTA KINABALU: A 48-year-old local man was jailed a total of 12 months’ and ordered to be whipped once by the Magistrate’s Court here for two counts of carrying a dangerous weapon in a public place and possessing a fake temporary identification document.
Deputy registrar of the High Court, Amir Shah Amir Hassan, imposed the sentence after Muh Noor Ghani pleaded guilty to both charges yesterday.
On the first count, he was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and one stroke of the cane for carrying a knife at Kampung Serigai in Putatan on December 11.
He was convicted under Section 6 (1) of the Corrosive, Explosive and Dangerous Weapons Act 1953 which carries a maximum jail term of two years and whipping, upon conviction.
On the second charge, the unrepresented accused received another six months’ jail for possessing fake identification document at the same time and place.
The offence was framed under Regulation 25 (1) (e) of the National Registration Regulations 1990 which provides for a jail term of up to three years or a fine of not less than RM3,000 and not more than RM20,000, upon conviction.
Amir Shah, who sat as a magistrate, ordered the accused to serve his jail terms consecutively from yesterday.
The court also ordered the accused to be referred to the Immigration Department after serving his sentence for further action and that all the exhibits are to be disposed off by the police.
Prosecuting officer, Inspector Lim Swee Beng, told the court that the accused was caught by police after he was found at the said place behaving suspiciously. After that, when the police conducted a check on him, they found the knife in his sling bag as well as the fake identification document. Further investigation revealed that the National Registration Department had never issued the document.