Man fined for spitting at worker IPOH: An unemployed man was fined here at 8.40pm last Monday under Section RM3,000 by the Magistrate's Court here after 509 of the Penal Code which provides for a being found guilty of humiliating a grocery maximum jail term of up to five years or a store employee by uttering abusive words fine or both. and spitting at the victim. The court also ordered the accused to be Magistrate Noor Azreen Liana Mohd Darus imprisoned for four months if he failed to pay handed down the sentence on M. Gunalan, the fine. The accused paid the fine. 47. from Taman Rasi Jaya here, after he plead- Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Nur ed guilty to uttering abusive words and spit- Asmaniza Mohammad asked the court to ting at Nor Asni Zilzawani Mohd Zahid with impose an appropriate penalty on the the intention of disrespecting the grocery accused. store worker who had reminded him to com- In mitigation, Gunalan's lawyer, Robert S. ply with the standard operating procedure set Gnanarajan, asked for leniency, saying that under the conditional MCO. the former fish monger was no longer Gunalan was charged with committing the employed due to the pandemic and regretted offence at a grocery store in Lahat Baru 2 his actions. - Bernama