KAJANG: A businessman was sentenced to four years’ jail and fined RM10,000 by the sessions court today after he pleaded guilty to drink driving which caused the death of a police corporal who was manning a roadblock.
Sessions court judge Sayani Mohd Nor imposed the jail sentence on K Kalaichelvan and fined him RM10,000, in default five months’ jail, for driving under the influence of alcohol and causing the death of Safwan Mohamad Ismail, 31, at a movement control order (MCO) roadblock on the Kajang-Seremban Highway at 2.10am on May 3, 2020.
Kalaichelvan, 45, was also jailed for six months for failing to comply with a police officer’s instructions to stop, a month’s jail for driving without a licence, and a month’s jail for defying the MCO lockdown.
The sentences will be served concurrently. All the offences were committed at the same place and time. Kalaichelvan pleaded guilty to all four charges.
Sayani disqualified Kalaichelvan from holding or applying for a driving licence for five years.
In mitigation, Kalaichelvan’s lawyer K Veeranesh Babu said his client had repented, and asked for a minimum jail sentence and for the sentences to run concurrently.
Deputy public prosecutor Mohammad Al-Saifi Hashim, who is also Selangor state prosecution director, asked the court for a deterrent jail sentence.
He said Safwan was a frontliner who was on duty during the pandemic and that the incident had happened during the MCO.
Kalaichelvan was also represented by lawyer Freda Josephine Gonzales. Also appearing for the prosecution were Fauzan Mohd Nor and Siti Nur Liyana Mohd Sulaiman. - FMT
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