A SINGLE mother was fined RM1,000 by the Batu Pahat Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to making a false police report, Harian Metro reported.
Keranjeet Kaur Shivinder, 41, lodged a false report claiming she had been robbed to avoid paying for a replacement MyKad.
Magistrate Mustaqim Sukarno imposed the fine on Keranjeet after considering her mitigation plea and the prosecution’s submissions.
The court also ordered her to serve five months’ imprisonment in default of payment.
She subsequently paid the fine.
Keranjeet, who has two children, was charged with making a false report that two men on a motorcycle had snatched her handbag in Kampung Jorak Elahi in Bukit Pasir at on Sept 12.
She lodged the report at the Cyberjaya police station on Sept 15 and police opened an investigation following the report.
However, during questioning, Keranjeet voluntarily admitted that the alleged snatch theft had never occurred.
She also admitted fabricating the story after misplacing her identity card because she wanted to obtain a replacement without paying the replacement fee.
> More than 500 residents in four villages in Kuala Krai, Kelantan, are worried about their safety after a tiger was spotted near oil palm plantations, Sinar Harian reported.
The villages are Kampung Nara, Gajah Mati, Bukit Pacat and Slow Temiang.
Sungai Mengkuang sub-district head Zulkifli Sulaiman said the tiger was seen roaming around plantations in the area.
He said the the animal was first reported by an Indonesian plantation worker who spotted it and alerted the authorities.
The Wildlife and National Parks Department subsequently set a trap to capture the animal.
However, a bear entered the trap instead.
Zulkifli said residents were increasingly concerned after a villager’s cow was reportedly attacked by the tiger on Tuesday.
The reported attack heightened fears among those who need to enter plantations for work, particularly rubber tappers and smallholders.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
