AN unemployed man was charged at the Magistrate Court in Alor Gajah today, with the murder of a friend, whose body was found stuffed in a black bag inside a burning car last month, in Pulau Sebang.

A. Sitambarasan, 28, of Johor, nodded his head after the charge was read out to him before Magistrate Nurhasmanita Abdul Manap, but did not enter a plea because the case is under the jurisdiction of the high court.

He was charged, with two other defendants still at large, with murdering Sua Chun Chai, 31, a wireman, in front of a workshop on Jalan IKS 6, IKS Pulau Sebang, between September 14 and 17, 2020.

The charge, read together with Section 34 of the Penal Code, carries the mandatory death sentence, upon conviction.

The court set November 16 for mention, pending chemistry and post-mortem reports.

Deputy public prosecutor Arthana Sarma Rao prosecuted, while Sitambarasan was unrepresented. – Bernama, October 6, 2020.