Belated Raya celebration for man freed of drug charges
MELAKA: A 37-year-old mechanic wasted no time and rushed back to his home to celebrate his “first day” of Hari Raya shortly after the High Court here acquitted him and two others of drug trafficking.

Muhammad Abdul Rahman told his lawyers Haresh Mahadevan and Ramzani Ismail that he needed to get back to his home in Masjid Tanah here to celebrate with his mother as the month of Syawal ends tomorrow.

“My client loves his mother so much and wanted to return home as soon as he was a free man to spend Hari Raya with her.

“He is still a bachelor and an only child and took care of his mother before he was detained in February 2021,” he said when interviewed here on Monday.

Haresh said Muhammad was so eager to return home and quickly left the courthouse soon after thanking the judge and both his lawyers.

“Today is his first Hari Raya after almost four years away from his home,” he added.

Earlier, Justice Mohd Radzi Abdul Hamid acquitted and discharged Muhammad, Mohd Fadzli Abd Razak, 44, and Yusri Awang, 38, after finding that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case against them.

He said the prosecution also failed to prove the element of common intention by the three to traffic the substance while the first and second accused were not the owner of the car where the drug was discovered. There was no evidence of fingerprints of the three, he also ruled.

The three, all self-employed, were charged with a common intention to traffic 162.35g of methamphetamine at the parking bay at the Road Transport Department in Bukit Katil here at 1.55pm on Feb 1, 2021.

Mohd Fadzli was represented by lawyer Asmawi Ismail and Yusri by lawyer Andrew Lourdes.

Six prosecution witnesses testified in the trial.
Courts Crime,Courts,Drug Trafficking
MELAKA: A 37-year-old mechanic wasted no time and rushed back to his home to celebrate his “first day” of Hari Raya shortly after the High Court here acquitted him and two others of drug trafficking.