TEEN JAILED FOR LIFE GETS EXTRA CANING

MUAR: A teenager who was sentenced by a Sessions Court last week to
life imprisonment and six strokes of the rotan for having a ganja
plant received another two years' jail and three more strokes
yesterday--this time from a magistrate's court -- for possessing 37gm
of ganja.

Mohd Naziff Ahmad, 18, from Jalan Temenggong Ahmad, who was charged
under Section 6, read together with Section 39A(1)(f) of the Dangerous
Drugs Act 1952, pleaded guilty before magistrate Abdul Ghafar Abdul
Latif.

Mohd Naziff was arrested on Nov 10 last year with 16 packets of ganja
weighing a total of 37gm.

Prosecuting officer Chief Insp R. Balakrishnan told the court Mohd
Naziff was charged on March 30 with having a ganja plant and was
sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sessions Court.

The magistrate ordered the two-year sentence to run concurrently with
the life imprisonment which Mohd Naziff received from the higher court
four days ago.

On March 30, Mohd Naziff pleaded guilty when he was charged under
Section 6D(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 in the sessions court
with having the ganja plant.