PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today upheld the 30-year jail term and 12 strokes of the rotan imposed on a former lorry driver for trafficking 1.4645 kilogrammes (kg) of methamphetamine.
A three-judge panel led by Court of Appeal President Datuk Seri Abu Bakar Jais, together with Federal Court judges Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali and Datuk Azimah Omar, dismissed Ahmad Fahmi Mohd Hasnu's appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Delivering the court's unanimous decision, Che Mohd Ruzima said the High Court judge had correctly applied the presumption of knowledge under Section 37(d) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and that the appellant (Fahmi) had failed to rebut the presumption.
"We find that the drugs were inside a bag, and the bag was in the possession and control of the appellant," he said, adding that the court rejected the defence's argument that the drugs had been found inside the car.
