PETALING JAYA: Nasyid singer and composer Muhammad Yasin Sulaiman was charged in separate courts with cultivating hashish vegetation and trafficking 214g of medicine at a condominium in Kota Damansara.
In the Sessions Court earlier than choose Norshila Kamaruddin yesterday, Muhammad Yasin, 47, pleaded not responsible to the cost of rising the vegetation.
The drug-trafficking cost was learn out to him earlier than Justice of the Peace Zhafran Rahim Hamzah and no plea was recorded because the case is beneath the High Court’s jurisdiction, Bernama reported.
Muhammad Yasin, who turned common with the track Mimpi Laila, was charged with cultivating 17 hashish vegetation in plastic pots at his residence at Kondominium Casa Indah, Persiaran Surian Damansara Indah Resort Home, PJU 3 Kota Damansara at 5.30pm on March 24.
The cost was framed beneath Section 6B (1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which carries life imprisonment and not less than six strokes of the rotan, upon conviction.
Deputy public prosecutors Mohammad Al-Saifi Hashim and Asnawi Abu Hanipah prosecuted, whereas Muhammad Yasin was represented by lawyer Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff.
In the Magistrate’s Court, the daddy of two was charged with trafficking 214g of hashish on the similar location, time and date.The cost beneath Section 39B (1) (a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and punishable beneath Section 39B (2) of the identical Act, carries the demise penalty or life imprisonment, and if not sentenced to demise, is punishable by whipping with not less than 15 strokes, upon conviction.
Mohd Yusmadi requested that his consumer be allowed bail on grounds that he has bipolar dysfunction and had been receiving psychiatric therapy on the Universiti Kebangsaaan Malaysia Medical Centre since 2009.
Both courts denied Muhammad Yasin bail and set May 18 for point out.
