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Malaysia Case Law

Burden of proof to rebut presumptions
  • 8 Dec 2025

    VIJI KUMAR A/L RAJOW

    Citation
    K-05(H)-207-05/2024 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
    Court
    H
    Case number
    K-05(H)-207-05/2024 (Mahkamah Rayuan)

    The Court found sufficient direct evidence of possession and knowledge because officers observed the appellants handling and placing small drug packets into a larger bag at the time of the raid; however the trial court erred by effectively applying a 'presumption upon a presumption' when treating deemed possession under s.37(d) as sufficient to invoke the s.37(da) trafficking presumption without a separate affirmative finding of found possession. Consequently convictions for trafficking under s.39B(1)(a) were unsafe and were quashed; convictions substituted to possession under s.12(2) DDA wit…