KOTA KINABALU: The Sessions Court fixed June 9–11 for the trial of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) attached to the Penang Federal Reserve Unit (FRU), who is charged with three counts of raping and one count of sodomising an underaged girl.
The dates were fixed when DSP Rohaizat Abd Ani’s case came up for mention here yesterday.
On August 2, 2013, the accused pleaded not guilty to a charge framed under Section 376 (1) of the Penal Code of raping the 13-year-old girl at different rooms of a hotel here on February 1 and 2, 2012 and in May 2012 between 7pm and 8.30 pm.
On the fourth count, he also denied the charge under Section 377B of the same Act of sodomizing the girl on February 1, 2012 about 3.30am inside a room of the same hotel here.
Each of the four charges is punishable with a maximum custodial sentence of 20 years and also whipping upon conviction.
The accused, represented by counsels Ram Singh and Zahir Shah, was not present for the hearing here yesterday. Deputy public prosecutor Afzan Abd Kahar prosecuted the case.
Bail for the accused was subsequently extended.
In another court, Judge Azreena Aziz gave a 23-year-old man a discharge not amounting to an acquittal, for a rape charge.
On August 28, 2013, Mohd Syharulnizam Jildahil had pleaded not guilty to raping a 13-year-old teenage girl at an unmarked house in Beaufort on August 19, 2013 at 2.30am.
According to defence lawyer Farazwin Haxdy, the case came up for the last mention while waiting for the chemist’s report which has been pending since August last year. Accordingly, she applied for a discharge not amounting to acquittal since the chemist’s report is not yet ready.
Deputy public prosecutor Dominic Chew Ban Huat, however, pleaded for a new mention date and said that all the relevant documents have been served on the defence.