PETALING JAYA: A Bangladeshi construction worker was today charged at the magistrate’s court, here, with murdering an Indonesian woman last month.
Md Shimul Babu, 23, was accused of murdering Nurhayati, 39, who worked as a cleaner, at 10.12pm at a budget hotel in Taman Mawar, Puchong on Dec 31 last year. The charge was read to him in Bahasa Malaysia before magistrate Amira Sariaty Zainal.
No plea was recorded from Shimul, who was clad in a green T-shirt and jeans in the dock, as murder cases are under the jurisdiction of the High Court.
Section 302 of the Penal Code carries the death penalty upon conviction.
In the same proceedings, he was charged with entering the country without a valid travel document at the Serdang district police headquarters’ Crime Investigation Office on Jan 3.
The offence under Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act and punishable under Section 6(3) carries a maximum RM10,000 fine and a jail term of not more than five years or both and is liable to more than six strokes of the rotan.
Deputy public prosecutor Nadiah Malek Fauzie did not offer bail for either charge.
The court set March 14 for submission of the chemist report and appointment of an interpreter.
Serdang police chief Assistant Commissioner A.A. Anbalagan, in a statement on Jan 4, had said at 10.15pm on Dec 31, police received a call via Mers 999 from a local man on the discovery of a woman who was unconscious and covered in blood. She was believed to have been murdered.
Acting on the information, at 4.30pm on Jan 3, investigators from the Serdang district police headquarters and its Selangor police contingent arrested a Bangladeshi man, a construction worker in Putrajaya.
Initial investigations found that the suspect was known to the woman and he allegedly admitted to killing her due to jealousy.
2025-01-17T01:00:00Z
Source Link: New Strait Times