DPP requests a deterrent sentence as the incident had been spread widely on social media. FMTNews MCO Covid19
KLANG: Eighteen men were sentenced to six days jail and fined RM1,000 each, in default three months’ jail, for defying the movement control order by attending a friend’s funeral last Thursday.
They are K Veeran, P Thanasegaran, J Arvinthan, C Sangkar, M Prabahkaran, J Johnpeter, A Kalaiselvan, S Surendren, N Rubes, M Selvaraju, M Paremesvaren, R Logaarajan, M Devan, A Prakash, S Rubendran, S Santhakumar, S Parthiban, and L Premkumar. They were jointly charged with being in an infected area without reasonable cause or the permission of a police officer from the Klang police station by gathering at a cemetery on Jalan Keretapi Lama here at 2pm on April 16.
Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Mohamad Afiq Zuber requested the court to impose a deterrent sentence as a lesson for them as their action in gathering at the funeral went viral on social media and became a topic of public interest.
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