KUALA LUMPUR: Two teenagers allegedly implicated in September’s Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah tahfiz school fire were freed today after serving time in detention for consuming cannabis.
Magistrate Zilfinaz Abbas ordered the teenage brothers, aged 16 and 17, to serve their sentence from their date of arrest (Sept 16) after they admitted to the charges under Section 15(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act.
Lawyer Haijan Omar, representing the siblings, said the boys should be freed now.
“They have been in custody for over two months from Sept 16,” he told reporters after the closed-door court proceeding.
Haijan said the magistrate had ordered the boys to be placed under supervision for two years and report themselves to the National Anti-Drug Agency.
Deputy public prosecutor Nurakmal Farhan Aziz said the court also imposed a RM5,000 bond without security on each of them.
Seven suspects were detained on Sept 15 during the police investigation into the fire but Deputy Inspector-General of Police Noor Rashid Ibrahim had said that not all of them were directly involved in the alleged arson.
Then Kuala Lumpur police chief Amar Singh said only two out of the seven boys were charged with murder in the tahfiz school fire incident that killed 23 people early on Sept 14.
Earlier today, two boys, aged 12 and 16, were freed by the same court after their urine tested negative for drugs.
However, the 16-year-old boy is accused with another teenager of murder over the tahfiz fire incident.
The murder case will be mentioned again on Jan 3, 2018 at another magistrate’s court. -FMT
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