FRUIT SELLER JAILED SIX YEARS FOR HAVING CANNABIS

MUAR: The Sessions Court here sentenced a fruit seller to six
years' jail and ordered that he be given 10 strokes of the rotan for
drug possession.

Ahari Aliman, 26, who was jointly charged with his wife Norhashimah
Ibrahim, 24, pleaded guilty to possessing 261g of cannabis before
Judge Norazlan Ahmad yesterday.

Norhashimah claimed trial.

The couple were arrested when a police team raided a house in Kampung
Terus near Panchor on April 20 last year.

During the trial, Norhashimah, complained to the court that some
policemen harassed her when they accompanied her from Kluang to the
Muar police station.

Judge Norazlan then allowed her counsel K.T. Lee to lodge a police
report on the matter.

In another case, a Muar Religious Department officer Ellia Mil Yani
Mohamad pleaded not guilty to breach of trust involving RM34,777 from
the state family development fund.

Ellia Mil Yani, 27, was alleged to have misused the fund between April
and December last year.

Judge Norazlan fixed Sept 5 for the case to be mentioned again and set
bail at RM4,000 in one surety.