Stripped, caned over RM100

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FORTY girls at a religious school in Gombak were caned and made to strip when none of them admitted to stealing RM100 from a fellow student, reported Sinar Harian.

Each girl received three strokes of the cane, twice behind their body and another on the palm of their hands at their dormitory last Wednesday.

A parent alleged that her 13-year-old daughter was forced to admit taking the money because she could not bear seeing her classmates being made to squat from between 1am and 4am.

“If no one took responsibility for the theft, the punishment could have continued until the morning assembly,” she said after she lodged a police report against the school on Friday.

But on Monday the school administration asked her to withdraw the report if she wanted to resolve the issue.

Gombak police chief Asst Comm Ali Ahmad said the management of the school would be hauled up in the investigations.

> Loud rock music proved to be the undoing of 30 people, including 10 girls, who got high partying at an apartment in Port Dickson on Monday, reported Harian Metro.

The police broke up the wild party and arrested the group, aged between 17 and 42, following public complaints.

Policemen seized ecstasy pills and ganja along with loudspeakers and disco lights in the apartment.

A total of 24 suspects tested positive for using ganja and syabu and they have been remanded.

> Berita Harian reported about a family of six who were injured when their car crashed into a wild boar crossing the North-South Highway near Alor Gajah, Malacca.

The family was returning from Kuala Lumpur and was heading to Batu Pahat, Johor, on Monday when the accident happened at 9.30pm.

The car driven by Mohd Saiful Ailre Razab, 29, slammed into the road divider, then hit the back of a trailer before turning turtle.

However the victims escaped with only minor injuries and were sent to the Alor Gajah Hospital.

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