Discharged: Nagendran and Sangeetha walking out of the court building in Johor Baru after the verdict. — THOMAS YONG/The Star
JOHOR BARU: A couple charged with abusing their four-year-old boy who later died have been given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal by the Sessions Court here over a technicality.
The boy’s stepfather S. Nagendran and his mother A. Sangeetha, both 23, had been charged on May 3 with acting negligently towards a child in their care to the extent that it caused him physical injury.
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