PUTRAJAYA: A former taxi driver escaped the gallows on Wednesday after the charge preferred against him for trafficking in 1029.2 grammes of cannabis was reduced to possession of the drug.
The Court of Appeal three-member panel of judges led by Justice Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Datuk Hashim Hamzah and Datuk Azmi Ariffin set aside M. Baskaran’s conviction and death sentence for the drug trafficking offence and replaced it with 10 years’ jail sentence.
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