Foreigners, drinkers among 104 charged with defying MCO

KUALA LUMPUR: Foreigners are among 104 individuals who were charged with defying the movement control order (MCO) at several magistrate’s courts here and in Perlis today.

At the Kuala Lumpur magistrate’s court, 73 people, including four women and nine foreigners — from Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Philippines and Yemen — were sentenced to between two days and two months’ jail, as well as a fine of between RM700 and RM1,000 each, in default a month’s jail, after they pleaded guilty to the charge.

Some of them were charged with defying the MCO by moving from one place to another to attend a friend’s birthday party. A few were caught hanging out at a motorcycle workshop.

All of them, aged between 21 and 55, were ordered to serve the jail sentences from the date of their arrests.

They were caught defying the MCO in Bukit Bintang, Sungai Besi, Cheras, and Taman Tun Dr Ismail, between April 14 and 20.

At the Ampang court, 11 people, including a 13-year-old Myanmar boy and an Indonesian woman, were charged with the offence.

They were caught at several locations in Taman Mestika, Jalan Desa 288, Kampung Tasik Permai, Pandan Mewah, Flat Dato Ahmed Razali, Taman Sri Watan, Taman Mulia and Pandan Mewah, between 9.15am and 6.30pm between April 5 and 18.

The court postponed to July 1, for sentencing, the case of the 13-year-old boy pending his probation report. The others, aged between 19 and 53, were fined between RM600 and RM700, in default a month’s jail.

At the Selayang magistrate’s court, six men — M Muruga Dass ,46, ACS Danesh Kumar, 36, R Nagachandran, 31; S Ganapathy, 39, R Chandran, 37, and S Kantha Raj, 39, were ordered to pay the maximum RM1,000 fine each for defying the MCO by gathering in an infected area for a drinking session.

They were caught at Taman Garing Jaya 5, Taman Garing Jaya, Rawang, at 4.43pm on April 19.

The court also meted out a fine of RM1,000 to S Kuvanesvaran, 27, Ng Kean Loong, 44, and Ng Say Tean, 36, and a 28-year-old woman, who were caught in Bandar Baru Selayang and Gombak between 4.30pm and 6pm on April 19 and 20.

Eight others — Md Zain Ahmad, 63, Mohd Nurfitri Abdul Aziz, 37, Shajaruddin Misbahulmunir, 36, Shawalludin Mohd Nor, 40, Roslan Dahalan, 49, Mohammad Nur Othman, 33, Muhamad Zairi Abu Bakar, 48, and Muhamad Hanif Abdul Manap, 35, were also fined RM1,000 each for gathering behind a house in Kampung Sungai Kertas, Batu Caves, Gombak, at 6pm last Sunday to eat.

They were charged with flouting Regulation 3 (1) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020, which is being enforced under the MCO.

In PERLIS, Muhammad Syabli Nooraldin, 21, and Mohd Nur Aiman Noorzan, 19, were sentenced to a month’s jail each by the Kangar magistrate’s court for being in an infected area without reasonable cause during the MCO period.

They were caught committing the offence along Jalan Sungai Alor Melaka, Mukim Kurung Anai, on April 16.

The two men, with another person, Saiful Amar Md Ros, 35, were also sentenced to six months’ jail for dishonestly receiving a stolen motorcycle belonging to a woman with a disability at the same place and date. - FMT