KOTA KINABALU: A couple, who went shopping together in Sabah’s south western Sipitang, was jailed four days and fined RM300 each by a magistrate's court here.
Emran Sahat, 55, and his wife Sarida Amat, 46, pleaded guilty to violating the movement control order under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 before Sessions Court judge Ummu Khaltom Abdul Samas, who sat as magistrate.
According to the facts of the case, the couple was said to have breached the MCO at Sipitang bypass road in Kg Napatan at around 9am on March 30. The court was told that police doing spot checks had ordered Emran to send his wife back as they were heading towards Sipitang town for shopping. The cops told the couple that under the MCO, only one person from a household was allowed to go shopping at any one time.The judge ordered the sentence to run from the date of arrest and for them to serve another two days in jail if they failed to pay the RM300 fine.
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