Restaurant owner gets jail


ALOR SETAR: A nasi kandar restaurant owner has become the first person in the country to be jailed for defying a quarantine order under the recovery movement control order (MCO).

Nezar Mohamed Sabur Batca, 57, the owner of the restaurant in Napoh, Kubang Pasu, where the Sivagangga cluster broke out, was sentenced to a total of 20 months’ jail and fined a total of RM12,000 by the Jitra Magistrate’s Court after he pleaded guilty to four charges under Section 15(1) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988.

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