Tuesday October 27, 2009

Husband leads khalwat raid on wife

Others News & Views
Compiled by NG CHENG YEE, BEH YUEN HUI and A.RAMAN

A MAN led religious department officers to his wife’s rented apartment where the mother of five was caught for khalwat – just two weeks after they celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary.

Utusan Malaysia reported that it took the 37-year-old woman half an hour to answer the door when officers from the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) came knocking during the midnight raid at the Pangsapuri Seri Camelia apartment in Sungai Chua, Kajang, recently.

Initially, the Jais officers did not find anyone else in the apartment but later caught a 31-year-old man hiding in an empty unit next door, holding his shoes and helmet. It is learnt that the man is married with a child.

The woman’s husband, who only wanted to be known as Azman, said he had suspected his wife of having an affair for a year.

“I am thankful that Allah has given me the answer,” he said.

Jais director Datuk Mohammed Khusrin Munawi confirmed the arrest.

> Kosmo! reported that 83% of new drug addicts traced in the country were Malays.

National Anti-Drug Agency assistant medical director Dr Sangeeh Kaur said a survey done between January and July showed that many of these addicts had just sat for the PMR and SPM.

“A total of 2,680 new addicts were traced throughout the country, with 10% being Chinese and 7% Indians,” she said.

She said 1,024 of them had PMR qualifications, while 913 had SPM qualifications.

As for the rest, 46 had sat for the STPM while 29 were diploma holders and four had degrees.

The survey also showed that those with higher academic qualifications were less likely to get involved in drug abuse, Dr Sangeeh Kaur said.

“Many of them started taking drugs because of the bad influence from friends and out of curiosity. The most popular drugs are heroin, morphine, syabu and marijuana,” she added.

> Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.