JOHOR BAHRU: A safety guard from Singapore was given a 14-day jail sentence, together with a high quality of RM7,000 (roughly S$2,200), on Aug 21 (Friday).
Fifty-six-year-old Mohamed Anim Atam pleaded responsible to insulting Islam in July.
A Shaarmini pronounced the sentence on Mohamed Anim on the Justice of the Peace’s Court docket in Johor Bahru. The Justice of the Peace mentioned his sentence would start from the date of his arrest on Aug 18, which had been carried out by the Legal Investigation Division of the Johor Bahru Selatan District Police Headquarters, in response to reporting from Malaysia’s nationwide information company Bernama.
The offence
At round 5:00 p.m. on July 30, Mohamed Anim was in an e-hailing car meant to take him from Jalan Tun Razak to Jalan Meldrum. Through the course of his experience, he was overheard by the driving force, Muhamad Danial Haikal Nadzahakim, 29, making remarks that have been insulting to Islam and the Quran, together with saying that the latter lacked compassion.
The motive force then recorded the remarks and posted the video on-line, which is over two minutes lengthy, and it shortly went viral. In it, Mr Muhamad Danial could be heard defending Islam, and at one level, even says he would ask the passenger to alight from his automotive. Earlier than it will get to that time, nevertheless, the passenger apologised.
On July 31, a police report was filed towards Mohamed Anim.
After he was arrested on Tuesday on the Sultan Iskandar Constructing in Bukit Chagar, he was charged with intentionally wounding the spiritual emotions of one other particular person by uttering phrases insulting Islam beneath Part 298 of Malaysia’s Penal Code.
The Singapore Police assisted with Mohamed Amin’s arrest.
The courtroom was requested for an applicable sentence by Deputy Public Prosecutor Eizlan Azhar, on condition that the video of Mohamed Anim’s insulting remarks had gone viral. It additionally concerned faith, one of many three R points, he added (the others being race and royalty).
As a result of a medical situation of hypertension, in addition to his present divorce proceedings, Mohamed Anim, who didn’t safe the companies of a lawyer, requested the courtroom for a lenient sentence. He defined that his divorce proceedings meant he wanted to be current on the Syariah Court docket in Singapore.
A conviction for the offence may have landed Mohamed Anim in jail for so long as one yr, been made to pay a high quality, or each. /TISG
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