A 29 year-old involved in drug trafficking has escaped death penalty in the first capital case prosecuted on Wednesday under the amended Misuse of Drugs Act.
Abdul Haleem Abdul Karim was convicted of trafficking a Class “A” controlled drug and possessing drugs for the purposes of trafficking.
However, under the revised Act which came into effect in January, he satisfied the dual requirements of having only played the role of courier and also that he provided “substantive assistance”. Instead of capital punishment and death, he has been sentenced to life imprisonment and the maximum 24 strokes of the cane. Full story
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