KUCHING: An unemployed man who claimed trial to voluntarily causing hurt while committing a robbery was ordered to be further remanded in jail by the Sessions Court yesterday.
The 21-year-old accused, Mohd Afis Masot Saleh, appeared before Judge Marutin Pagan who made the order and set April 24 for further mention of the case. Trial was fixed for June 16.
Afis allegedly committed the offence together with another person still at large somewhere at Jalan Batu Kawa about 2am on Feb 23.
Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery, comes under Section 394 of the Penal code which provides the maximum 20 years’ jail and whipping on conviction.
The brief fact of case said that two men had stopped a car driven by a 54-year pensioner at Jalan Batu Kawa.
They got into his car and shoved a knife at his abdomen, and punched him on the chest.
The two men then fled the scene in their victim’s car leaving the victim who was badly injured to fend for his own.
On March 29, at 8.34am, a man and his girlfriend were taken into custody by the police in connection with a hit-and-run incident.
Investigation showed that the car involved in the incident has the same specification with the car that was reported missing in Batu Kawa on Feb 23.