GEORGETOWN: Penang Island City Council (MBPP) may have to review its parking summons procedures after the magistrate's court today acquitted lawyer V S Raveentharan of parking offences.
Magistrate Mohamad Amin Shahul Hamid said the prosecution failed to prove a prima facie and there were several technical issues with regards to the case.
"The prosecution failed to present to the court a sample of signature, one of the first and most important exhibit," he said.
Raveentharan was accused of illegally parking his car on March 11, 2014 at 10.30am along Jalan Tun Syed Shah Barakbah, an offence under Article 5(1) Road Transport Order (motorised vehicle parking) MPPP 2014.
Representing Raveentharan was lawyer Baljit Singh, who said the council had issued a summon on his client without any proof of his offence.
"They could not proof it was my client that had parked the car and they failed to give him the chance to explain. Instead, they issued the summon to his name because he owned the car," he told reporters outside the court room.
Baljit added that the decission was an eye opener for the people of Penang to take another look at their own MBPP summonses.