A paddy farmer and an unemployed man were sentenced to three months in jail by the Kangar Magistrate Court today for stealing Harum Manis mangoes and violating the Movement Control Order (MCO).

Magistrate Kamaliza Md Zain handed down the sentence on Saiful Hizam Abdul Latif, 47 and Noor Shabuddin Saidin, 24, after both pleaded guilty to the charges.

Kamaliza sentenced them to one-month imprisonment for stealing the mangoes and another two months for defying the MCO, and ordered that the two sentences run concurrently from the date of their arrests on March 26.

The duo had stolen 18 mangoes from a farm in Jalan Guar Nangka, Kampung Cikgu Ali, Mata Ayer here at 9.30 am on March 25, at the same time violating the MCO. - Bernama