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KUALA LUMPUR: Six people were fined RM800 each by the Magistrates Court here for fighting in front of Low Yat Plaza last week.
Magistrate Tawfiq Affandy Chin fined them after they pleaded guilty to the charge under Article 160 of the Penal Code for committing a fight.
They were caught for fighting outside the digital shopping mall in Bukit Bintang on December 4 and were accused of disturbing the public peace.
The six people were Haikal Izwaanfazeede Razak, Muhammad Johan Perumal, Muhammad Farid Izzat Dzulkafli, Muhammad Yadiy Na’im Dzulkafli, Ismail Arif Haron, and Muhammad Dzulhakim Dzulkafli. They are employees of the IT outlets in the mall.
They will face a one month jail sentence if they do not pay the fine of 800 RM.
The court also postponed its decision against another defendant, who is a teenager, until February 8 of the next year, pending his welfare report.
Police said they arrested a total of 44 people last Friday for the fight in front of Low Yat Plaza. Those arrested were shop owners, employees and members of the public.
Dang Wangi District Police Chief Mohamad Zainal Abdullah said the fight allegedly started after a dispute over customers outside some stores that sell computers and laptops.
He added that the incident was not racially motivated.
Videos of the fighting on the road and in front of shops outside Low Yat Plaza were shared on social media after the incident.
Kuala Lumpur’s popular digital mall is not new to controversy with an incident in July 2015 involving an alleged robbery, which escalated into a fight between friends of the arrested youth and tenants, and later a racially motivated protest. of some Malaysian NGOs.
