KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Former ‘Rockanova’ reality show participant, Zarith Sofia Mohd Yasin, was fined RM27,000 by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Jan 15) for keeping and confining a sun bear cub at her apartment in Desa Petaling in June last year.
Zarith Sofia, 28 was fined RM20,000, in lieu six months imprisonment, for the charge of keeping the sun bear and another RM7,000, in lieu four months in jail, for confining the animal.
In July last year, the singer had claimed trial to keeping a sun bear cub, a totally protected species under the Second Schedule of the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010, without a special permit. The singer was also accused of confining the cub in an environment that was not conducive to its comfort and health and was charged under Section 86 of the same Act, which carries a fine of not less than RM5,000 and not exceeding RM50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both, upon conviction.
Earlier, Zarith Sofia’s lawyer, Nik Muammer Hurrie Mohamad Sukri, in mitigation, pleaded for his client to be spared a jail sentence as it was her first offence."When the Wildlife and National Parks Department found the animal, it was in good health, ” he said.
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