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CASHIER FREED OF DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGE
KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) -- The presence of a duplicate key to a locker at a cinema here let a cashier off the hook from a drug trafficking charge.
Judicial Commissioner Azman Abdullah today acquitted and discharged L. Mogana after ruling that the defence had raised a reasonable doubt regarding Mogana's possession of the drugs as the cinema management had a duplicate key to the locker where the drugs was found.
Mogana, 24, was charged with trafficking in 24.26gm heroin and 91.73gm monoacetylmorphines at the IMAX Pawagam Berjaya Time Square, 10th Floor, Jalan Imbi at about 5.30pm on July 19, 2005.
When handing down his judgment, Azman said although the court ruled that there was no reason for other people to victimise Mogana, by placing the drugs in his locker, but that it could be done as the management of the place where he was working had a duplicate key to the locker.
He also said that the prosecution failed to provide evidence, through its witnesses, on information obtained that gave the full name of the accused and the exact location where the drugs were kept.
Deputy public prosecutor Lokman Kasim prosecuted while Mogana was represented by counsel Datuk P.M. Nagarajan.
-- BERNAMA
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