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The 35-year-old suspect was taken into custody
on June 22, following an investigation conducted by
the RBPF.
On June 24, he was charged in the Magistrate’s
Court under Section 392, Chapter 22 of the Criminal
Penal Code. The charge carries the penalty of no
more than 30 years’ jail term and no less than 12
strokes of the cane.
The suspect is currently being remanded at the
Jerudong Prison.
Hitchhiker robbed at knifepoint in Seria
Acting Commanding Of icer of the Belait Police District Superintendent Handrie bin Haji Amin and
Assistant Crime Of icer of the Belait Police District Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Dennie Adli bin
Haji Sulaiman present the evidence at the press conference on Wednesday evening. PHOTO: DANIEL LIM
Izah Azahari
Services and management as well as correspon-
dences at divisions and units under the Criminal In-
vestigation Department (CID) of the Royal Brunei Po-
lice Force (RBPF) have been temporarily transferred
to the RBPF headquarters, the RBPF said yesterday.
The temporary transfers include the CertiŒicate
of Good Conduct to the lobby from 8’11am and
2’3pm and bail bond services to the security post
from 8am to noon and 1.45’4.30pm.
Meanwhile, all correspondences with the CID
have been temporarily redirected to the police
headquarters at Jalan Tungku Gadong BE2110 or
2459500 (ext 796/797).
Temporary transfer of CID matters
The Magistrate’s Court yesterday ordered the
owner of a local restaurant to settle a BND2,000
Œine or serve a month’s jail in default after the owner
pleaded guilty to a charge of contravening the Halal
CertiŒicate and Halal Label Order 2005.
DPP Hajah Siti Mu’izzah binti Haji Sabli revealed
in court that Restaurant Ismahan stored non-certiŒied
Halal food items, three and a half packets of chicken
wings weighing three kilogrammes at the restaurant
premises at Sufri Complex on October 18, 2016 when
enforcement ofŒicers from the Halal Food Control
Division dropped in for a routine inspection.
Restaurant fined BND2,000 over Halal issue
The Magistrate’s Court yesterday remitted an assault
case for the Intermediate Court to hear on July 6.
DPP Raihan Nabilah binti Haji Ahmad Ghazali’s
charge against Mohammad Abdul Mutalip bin
Minudin, 34, alleges him of having assaulted a 16-
year-old boy by stabbing him twice in his stomach
and twice in his left lower back using an electrician’s
test pin instrument at a house in Kampong Kupang,
Tutong at 5am on May 20.
The charge is an offence that includes the
possibility of causing death. It carries a penalty of
15 years’ jail with whipping.
The High Court yesterday upheld the Magistrate’s
Court decision on handing a deterrent sentence to
a habitual drug abuser.
Awangku Haji Abdul Razak bin Pengiran Haji
Aliuddin was sentenced to three and a half years’
jail after he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s
Court on April 16, 2020 to a charge of consuming
methylamphetamine.
Chief Justice Dato Seri Paduka Steven Chong,
guided by the provisions under Section 29 (3A) of
the Misuse of Drugs Act for a second or subsequent
offender to be liable to a minimum of three years
imprisonment, said, “In view of the applicant’s
two prior convictions for drug consumption, and
it would appear he slipped back to drug use soon
after serving his sentence for the last offence, the
Magistrate rightly decided that a deterrent sentence
above the prescribed minimum was appropriate.”
The Chief Justice found the sentence to be not
excessive and dismissed the application.
Drug abuser’s appeal against sentence dismissed
Intermediate Court will hear grave assault case
Fadley Faisal