PUTRAJAYA: A Pakistani man escaped the gallows on Tuesday (May 24) after the charge against him for drug trafficking was substituted with one of drug possession.
Sardar Ali Hassan Muhammad 47, who worked as a construction worker, was instead sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment and ordered to be whipped 10 times for possessing 1909.8g of heroin and monoacetylmorphine, eight years ago.
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