JOHOR BAHRU, Nov 11 — Four men, including a secondary school student, claimed trial at the Magistrate’s Court here today to charges of setting off fireworks on a main road during Deepavali last Sunday.
The accused – P. Ruban, 20; S. Tharun, 18; H. Periuthiv, 19; and a 16-year-old – entered their pleas after the charges were read to them separately.
Their pleas were recorded before four different magistrates: A. Shaarmini, Atifah Hazimah Wahab, Nurzihan Abdul Rehman and Nur Fatin Mohamad Farid.
According to the charge sheets, all of the accused allegedly acted negligently with fireworks, an explosive substance, on a public road occupied by other vehicles, in a manner that could have caused harm to others.
