JOHOR BARU, June 27 — The High Court here today ordered that the fine against the offender of the air pollution in Pasir Gudang in 2019 increased to RM80,000 per charge compared...
File picture of Fire and Rescue Department personnel collecting water samples from the site affected by the chemical discharge in Sungai Kim Kim in Pasir Gudang, on March 7, 2019. The High Court in Johor Baru today ordered that the fine against the offender of the air pollution in Pasir Gudang in 2019 increased to RM80,000 per charge compared to the RM40,000 per charge as initially meted out by a lower court here.
In the judgment, Abu Bakar said the court held that once P Tech Resources had been offered the eight optional charges for offences including air pollution, the prosecution could not rely on evidence during the trial relating to the original charge involving the dumping of sediment into the river to appeal for the maximum fine.
Abu Bakar, however, in his judgment, said that the Sessions Court Judge failed to appreciate the purpose of the Environmental Quality Regulations 2014. Therefore, the High Court allowed the prosecution’s appeal for all the optional charges involving air pollution and increased the fine from RM40,000 to RM80,000 on each count and the respondent/company’s appeal against the sentence is hereby dismissed, he said.
Maridass was charged with releasing oil sludge, a scheduled waste listed in the First Schedule of the Environmental Quality Regulations 2005, into the river.
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