A NEPALI man was sentenced to four months’ in prison by the Magistrate’s Court in Kuala Lumpur today for beating up a compatriot security guard, following an incident that went viral on social media.

Magistrate Wong Chai Sia passed the sentence on Ram Gopal Murau after he pleaded guilty to the charge read out to him in Bahasa Malaysia.

The court ordered the accused to serve the sentence from August 3, the date of his arrest.

Ram Gopal was accused of voluntarily causing hurt to Eslam Husen by beating him up with a truncheon in the car park of a shopping complex in Taman Melati at noon on July 7.

He was charged under Section 324 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt with a weapon.

Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Wan Ahmad Hakimi Wan Ahmad Jaafar asked the court to impose an appropriate sentence to serve as a deterrent, while the accused, who was unrepresented, appealed for a lenient sentence.

In the same court, vegetable seller V. Vigneswaran, 29, was fined RM2,500 or two months in prison in lieu of the fine after he pleaded guilty to voluntarily injuring his employer with a ukelele in front of the PPR Sri Selangor lobby, Dang Wangi at 5.30am on August 6.

The charge was also under Section 324 of the Penal Code. – Bernama, August 11, 2020.