KAJANG: A 13-year-old boy pleaded responsible in a Magistrate’s Court on Friday (May 3) to setting a kitten on hearth within the car parking zone of the Sri Kenari Flats in Sungai Ramal Baru right here final month.
Magistrate Nik Siti Norazlini Nik Mohamed Faiz mounted June 27 for sentencing and submission of an ethical report from the Social Welfare Department.
The court docket granted {the teenager} bail of RM1,000 with one surety.
The boy and two others nonetheless at giant have been charged with cruelty and inflicting ache to the animal by setting it on hearth at 1.08pm on April 23.
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The prices have been framed below Section 29(1)(e) of the Animal Welfare Act 2015 learn along with Section 34 of the Penal Code.
The offence carries a fantastic of not lower than RM20,000 and a most of RM100,000 or imprisonment of no more than three years, or each, upon conviction.
Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Nurul Afiqah Abdul Ghaffar proposed bail to be set at RM10,000 with one surety on the grounds that the case was a critical one involving cruelty to animals, and of public curiosity.
The teenager’s mom, 30, appealed for decrease bail as she solely earned RM1,500 a month and likewise needed to assist her 63-year-old mom.
Previously, CCTV footage of the incident went viral displaying three males on the flat’s bike parking space sprinkling what’s believed to be gas on a kitten, estimated to be six weeks old, earlier than one in all them set the cat on hearth.
The Selangor Veterinary Services Department later reported that the kitten was recovering and in good situation below its care. – Bernama
