Local artiste VJ Emergency jailed 12 years for causing friend's death


PETALING JAYA: Popular local Tamil artiste and film director known as VJ Emergency has been sentenced to 12 years in jail by the Shah Alam High Court for causing the death of a childhood friend.

The 46-year-old former national MIC Youth Arts and Cultural Bureau chairman, whose real name is Vijayan Palaniappan, pleaded guilty on Friday (March 25) to a reduced charge of causing the death of engineer Seri Ganis Kanapathy Pillay Krishnan, 42, under Section 304(a) of the Penal Code.

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