KUALA LUMPUR: A surveyor who defied the Movement Control Order (MCO) by going to a mosque was fined RM1,000.
The Selayang magistrate’s court ordered Zamli Abd Halim, 45, to serve a month's jail if he failed to pay the fine.
Magistrate Nur Hafizah Rajuni meted out the fine after Zamli pleaded guilty.
He was charged with flouting the MCO by failing to show reasonable cause for being in a disease infected area, which is an offence under Regulation 3(1) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020,
Zamli was caught at the Al-Syakirin Mosque in Gombak here at 10.45am on April 4.
He was also fined another RM2,500, in default three months’ jail, for trespassing into the quarters at the mosque compound at 10.30am the same day. - Bernama