The Sessions Court here today sentenced two men to 11 years in prison and two lashes of the rotan after finding them guilty of raping an 18-year-old girl in a car in May last year.

Judge Izralizam Sanusi sentenced lorry driver, B. Satia, 27, and his friend T. Khanesen, 31, who was working as a construction site supervisor, after the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubts at the end of the defence case.

‘After the court took into account mitigation and weighing the facts that was examined as fairly as possible, the order of the good behavior bond requested by the two accused was inappropriate and inappropriate to be given’Therefore the court sentenced the two accused to 11 years imprisonment with two strokes of the cane,’ said Judge Izralizam who ordered the prison sentence to start today.

Earlier, lawyers Muhammad Amin Abdullah and K. Ponnusamy, representing Satia and Kanesen respectively, applied for a punishment in the form of a good behavior bond, taking into account the fact that the two accu
sed are the main breadwinners of the family and are first-time offenders.

‘We are also requesting a stay of execution while waiting for an appeal to be filed in the High Court,’ said Ponnusamy.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency