KUALA LUMPUR: A freelance photographer was today found guilty of uploading offensive remarks on Hindus on his Facebook two years ago.
Sessions Court judge M. M. Edwin Paramjothy meted out the verdict against Zamri Abdul Razak, 51, after the defence failed to cast reasonable doubt on the prosecution’s case.
“After hearing submissions from both parties, the court finds that the prosecution has proven its case beyond reasonable doubt against the accused,” he said.
The judge later fixed April 2 for sentencing.
Zamri was accused of posting two offensive comments via his Facebook profile ‘Zamri Bin Abd Razak’ with intention to annoy.
According to the charge, the contents were read by another Facebook user under the name ‘Saravana Kumar’ at the Cyber Crime and Multimedia Investigation Division, Commercial Crime Investigation Department, Bukit Aman police headquarters, here, at 12.45pm on March 10.
The charge under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 carries a maximum fine of RM50,000 or one year’s jail or both.
Earlier, counsel Harris Al-Hajj Abdullah who represented the accused pleaded for a lenience sentence as his client suffered from heart disease.
However, deputy public prosecutor Nor Azizah Aling pressed for deterrent sentence due to the seriousness of the case.-NST