Plantation worker gets three years jail, whipping for cheating travel agencies

KUALA LUMPUR: A plantation worker was sentenced to a total of three years in jail and given three strokes of the cane by three Magistrate's Court here today for cheating three travel agencies, involving losses amounting to RM26,588.

T. Haans Raaj, 22, was charged with three counts of cheating, read out separately before three magistrates.

They are Magistrates Aina Azahra Ariffin, Wong Chai Sia and Atiqah Mohamed @ Mohamad Saim, who then sentenced Haans Raaj to one year in prison and one stroke of the cane after he pleaded guilty to the charge that was read out before them, respectively.

All three magistrates ordered Haans Raaj to serve the prison sentence from the date of his arrest on Dec 19.

All the charges were framed under Section 420 of the Penal Code which provides imprisonment for up to 10 years, whipping and is liable with fine, upon conviction.

Deputy public prosecutors B. Sareeka, Nur Hafiezah Mohamed Fauzi and Nadia Eleena Jamaluddin Akbar represented the prosecution in the three cases respectively, while Haans was unrepresented.

-- BERNAMA