MUAR: A housewife was brought before two separate courts each on charges of causing injury to her husband using a baseball bat, and smashing the window of the victim's car in November last year.
The accused, Lim Siow Leng, 41, however, pleaded not guilty to both charges before Judge Irwan Suainbon in the Sessions Court today, and Magistrate Fatin Dalilah Khalid in the magistrates' court yesterday.
In the Sessions Court, she was charged with causing injury to her 42-year-old husband by using a baseball bat in an assault that could have resulted in death, at about 9.20am on Nov 5 last year at a factory here.
The mother of four is charged with an offence punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 326A of the same code.
Section 324 of the Penal Code carries an imprisonment of up to 10 years, or a fine, whipping, or both.
Meanwhile, Section 326A carries a penalty of imprisonment for double the maximum duration for the related offence if convicted.
The prosecution was led by deputy public prosecutor Nur Sulehan Abd Rahman, while the accused was unrepresented.
Earlier, the prosecution told the court that the offence committed by the accused was non-bailable, but it was up to the judge's discretion to allow bail.
After hearing the prosecution's submissions and the accused's plea, the court granted the accused bail of RM5,000 with one surety and set May 20 for the next mention of the case.
Meanwhile, in the magistrates' court, Lim was charged with committing mischief by smashing the window of her husband's BMW, causing an estimated loss of RM15,233, at about 9.40am on Nov 5 last year at the same location.
She was charged with an offence punishable under Section 427 of the Penal Code, which provides for imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than five years, or a fine, or both, if convicted.
Deputy public prosecutor Mohammad Arif Marzuki prosecuted while the accused was unrepresented.
The court then granted the accused bail of RM2,800 with one surety and set June 26 for the next mention of the case.
According to the police report, the accused, who is divorcing her husband, was said to have been enraged upon discovering that the self-employed man was allegedly having an affair with a foreign woman.
Following this, the accused allegedly took a baseball bat and struck her husband's private parts, causing him to bleed and requiring treatment at Sultanah Fatimah Specialist Hospital.
The woman was also accused of smashing her husband's car window using the same implement before a report was made at the Muar district police headquarters.