00:01A 41-year-old man was charged at the Butterworth Magistrate's Court on Friday
00:06with the murder of a taxi driver whose body was found in a ditch in Kepala Batas last month.
00:12S Ganesan is accused of causing Harun Chua Abdullah's death between 2am and 4am on Oktober 8th
00:20along the stretch from Jalan Tun Hamdan Sheikh Tahir to Jalan Permatang Pak Elong.
00:25Harun's body was found face down in a ditch near Surau Permatang Pak Elong on Oktober 11th.
00:31An angler discovered it and alerted the police.
00:35Ganesan was charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code.
00:39If convicted, the penalty is death, or between 30 and 40 years jail with at least 12 strokes of the
00:46cane.
00:47No plea was recorded as murder cases fall under the High Court's jurisdiction.
00:52Bail was not granted, and the court fixed December 18th for mention, pending the chemical and post-mortem reports.
01:00Separately, at the same court, a Rohingya man was fined RM3,500 for using Ganesan's identity card to register a
01:09touch-and-go account.
01:1041-year-old Ajmul Khan Shafiullah, who has lived in Malaysia for 15 years and holds a UNHCR card,
01:18was found to have used the MyCard without lawful authority on November 3rd.
01:23The offence took place at Jalan Bertam Dua at about 4.09pm, where Ajmul used the identity card to register
01:31the account.
01:32He was detained at about 1.40pm on the same day in front of Block B of Sri Gotong Apartments
01:38in Batu Caves, Selangor.
01:40A check of his mobile phone subsequently revealed the unauthorised use of Ganesan's identity card.
01:47Ajmul was charged under Regulation 25, subsection 1E of the National Registration Regulations 1990,
01:55which carries a jail term of up to three years, a fine of up to RM20,000 or both upon
02:01conviction.
02:02He was represented by lawyer Ahmad Fariz Khairuddin.
02:10He was represented by lawyer Ahmad Fariz Khairuddin.
02:12He was represented by lawyer Ahmad Fariz Khairuddin.
02:16He was represented by lawyer Ahmad Fariz Khairuddin.
02:17He was represented by lawyer Ahmad Fariz Khairuddin.
