Extortion case: Prosecution seeks revision of Long Tiger's DNAA
The prosecution has applied for a revision of the decision of the Tangkak Magistrate's Court to grant a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) to Abdul Hamim Ab Hamid, notoriously known as Long Tiger, for extortion.
The application was filed yesterday before Muar High Court judge Abu Bakar Qatar, who then set June 1 for the decision.
Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Ghazali in his submission said...
The prosecution has applied for a revision of the decision of the Tangkak Magistrate's Court to grant a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) to Abdul Hamim Ab Hamid, notoriously known as Long Tiger, for extortion.
The application was filed yesterday before Muar High Court judge Abu Bakar Qatar, who then set June 1 for the decision.
Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Ghazali in his submission said on May 17, lawyer Shaharudin Ali, who represented Abdul Hamim, 33 (above), requested that his client be released without bail on the grounds that the case was groundless because the complainant or the prosecution's first witness had died.
Muhammad Syafiq said that based on the law, regardless of whether the complainant had died or was still alive, the proceedings would continue unless the charge was incomplete, its meaning was unclear or the accused did not know he was charged with a particular offence.
Shaharudin, on the other hand, argued that if the complainant had died, how would the case be proven?
The Tangkak Magistrate's Court then rejected Shaharudin's application for his client to be granted a DNAA on charges of threatening Luqman Hakeem under Section 506 of the Penal Code and confining him under Section 342, on the grounds that the complainant had died.
Charged with extortion
On May 6, 2020, Abdul Hamim was charged with extortion by intimidating Luqman Hakeem Othman, 20, in order to force the latter’s wife to drop a police report on a case against him.
The offence was allegedly committed at a restaurant in Bukit Gambir, in the Tangkak District of Johor, between 7pm and 9pm in October 2019, under Section 388 of the Penal Code, which provides for imprisonment of up to 10 years and a fine or whipping upon conviction.
However, Luqman Hakeem, a former employee of Abdul Hamim, was involved in a road accident in Tangkak and died at the Sultanah Fatimah Specialist Hospital on March 23.
On May 17, the media reported that the Tangkak Magistrate's Court granted Abdul Hamim the DNAA on the extortion charge, following an application from Abdul Hamim's lawyer.
Apart from the three charges, Abdul Hamim, who is of Rohingya ethnicity, was also, on Aug 8 last year, charged under Section 376 (1) of the Penal Code with raping a woman on Sept 26, 2019.
Abdul Hamim, who infamously fled while awaiting trial at the Tangkak Magistrate's Court in December last year, was sentenced to 12 months in jail by the same court, after pleading guilty to deliberately fleeing from police custody.
- Bernama
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