KUALA LUMPUR: A boutique owner who also provides wedding planning services in Raub Pahang, has been sentenced to one year's jail and one stroke of the cane by the Magistrates Court here for cheating his client of RM9,000.

       Magistrate Atiqah Mohamed @ Mohamad Saim meted out the sentence on Hasmerun Hashim, 31, after he pleaded guilty to the charge and ordered him to serve the prison sentence starting on Wednesday (Jan 31).

       Hasmerun was accused of cheating a 29-year-old bride-to be by deceiving her into transferring a total of RM9,000 in two transactions to his bank account, Arjuna Cinta Wedding, for wedding planning services.

       He committed the offence at a resident in Taman Shamelin Perkasa, Cheras on Aug 23 and 25, 2023.

       He was charged under Section 420 of the Penal Code with cheating, which is punishable by between one and 10 years of imprisonment, caning, and a fine, upon conviction.

       Hasmerun, who was unrepresented, appealed for a minimum sentence as he had dependents including sickly parents and a school-going sibling.

       "I plead guilty to the offence and appeal for the remission of the caning sentence," he said.

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       However, deputy public prosecutor Nadia Eleena Jamaluddin Akbal requested a deterrent sentence to serve as a lesson and submitted that there were no mitigating circumstances for the remission of caning. – Bernama