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Article: `30 years jail now for culpable homicide'
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- March 15, 2007
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New Straits Times
03-15-2007
`30 years jail now for culpable homicide'
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section
PUTRAJAYA: The maximum sentence for culpable homicide has been increased from 20 to 30 years.
This is effective from March 6, the Court of Appeal was told yesterday.
Deputy public prosecutor K. Mangai, appealing against the 10- year jail term imposed on rubber tapper M. Mohan by the Muar High Court in 2005 for murdering his lover, M. Janaky, 43, said the amendment to the Penal Code was done in 2003 and came into force this month.
Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Mohd Ghazali Mohd Yusoff, who sat with Datuk Zulkefli Ahmad Makinuddin and Datuk Low Hop Bing, after hearing ...