Kota Kinabalu: The court fixed Aug 28 for mention of the case involving a 42-year-old jobless charged with committing mischief and causing injury to his niece.
Sessions Court Judge Amir Shah Amir Hassan set the date for Musa Matsalleh whose case was brought up for mention and fixed the date for the prosecution to serve all relevant documents to Musa.
The court also granted the prosecution’s application for both Musa’s cases to be heard and consolidated as it involved same witnesses.
window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.defineSlot('/22826383987/dailyexpress_inline', [1, 1], 'gpt-passback').addService(googletag.pubads());googletag.enableServices();googletag.display('gpt-passback');});On the first count, Musa is accused of committing mischief by burning the mattress and bed at 1pm on June 15 this year at a house in Kg Bambangan, Papar.
The offence under Section 435 of the Penal Code carries a jail term of up to 14 years, and liable to a fine, on conviction.
On the second count, he allegedly voluntarily caused hurt to his 14-year-old niece at the same place and time.
Pending the date, Musa was ordered remanded further.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Bryan Francis appeared for the prosecution while Musa was not represented.
Meanwhile, eight illegal immigrants were jailed four months each for entering the State illegally.
All the illegal immigrants aged 19 and 56, comprising Filipinos, pleaded guilty separately before Sessions Court Judge Hurman Hussain, to entering the State without their valid documents.
The offence under Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/1963 provides for a jail term of up to five years, or a fine of up to RM10,000, and whipping, on conviction.
The illegal immigrants were arrested by the Immigration team who carried out operation in the city area this month (July).
During the operation, they failed to produce their identification documents to the Immigration personnel.
The illegal foreigners asked to be deported to their respective hometowns as soon as possible.
The court ordered the illegal immigrants to serve the jail sentence from the date of their arrests.
After completing their jail sentence, all the illegal foreigners were ordered referred to the Immigration Department for further action.