KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court has discharged and acquitted Umno supreme council member Datuk Lokman Noor Adam of the charge of spreading false news on his Facebook page regarding the death of a police officer due to vaccination in 2021.
Judge Nor Hasniah Ab Razak made the decision after finding that the defence had succeeded in raising reasonable doubt about the case against Lokman, 50, under Section 4(1) of the Emergency (Essential Powers) (No.2) Ordinance 2021, at the end of the prosecution’s case.
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