Lawyer acquitted of drug trafficking charge


Discussing matters: Sivakumar is flanked by Haresh (left) and Ramzani outside the Seremban High Court.

SEREMBAN: The case against a 51-year-old lawyer facing the gallows over an alleged drug traffic­king charge was dropped following new development put forward by his lawyers.

As a result, High Court judge Justice Siti Mariam Othman acquitted G. Sivakumar of the charge of trafficking in nearly a kilo of cannabis at a parking lot in front of a house in Taman Desa Seringin in Nilai at 8pm on Oct 14 last year.

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