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Topic

Section 420 penal code (cheating)

Legal area

Court

26 May 2025

DAYANG NUR ALIYA NATASHA BINTI AMIL HASAN SUSPEK RAHIM NOOR

Citation

JD-89RE-306-05/2025 (Mahkamah Majistret)
Court

Magistrates' Court
Case number

JD-89RE-306-05/2025 (Mahkamah Majistret)

Remand application dismissed because the applicant failed to identify or prove any immigration offence to justify detention under s.51(5)(b) and the detainee was not produced within the statutory period (detained 21 days before production), constituting procedural non-compliance with constitutional and statutory safeguards.
15 Oct 2020

ZAINAL BIN JIDON (NO. KP : XXXXXX-XX-XXXX)

Citation

JB-41H-29-08/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

JB-41H-29-08/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The High Court held that the 13 cheating offences constituted multiple separate transactions causing distinct losses to different victims; therefore consecutive sentences were appropriate. The court reduced each individual sentence from 3 years to 2 years imprisonment in exercise of sentencing discretion due to mitigating factors (including an early plea) but upheld consecutive ordering and maintained one stroke of whipping per count; the appellant was ordered to pay restitution to each victim under Section 426 CPC.