Appeals court upholds decision to free youth of dangerous driving charge

The Court of Appeal today attested the High Court’s vindication of an adolescent for risky driving bringing about the passing of a pillion rider six years prior.

It was a larger part choice, with seat executive Has Zanah Mehat and Abu Bakar Jais excusing the indictment’s allure. Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali dissented.”There is no legitimacy in the indictment’s allure and the choice of the High Court is kept up with,” Has Zanah said.

The respondent, Mohamed Atif Izzat Ajizi, 26, hurled a moan of alleviation prior to surging out of the court to offer his petitions. He was an understudy at the hour of the accident however is presently filling in as a technician.Atif was accused of risky driving over an impact between his vehicle and a bike, bringing about the demise of pillion rider Mohd Tajul Amran.

The motorcyclist, educator Mahmad Kamel Ishak, in any case, gotten away with wounds.

Atif, was claimed to have submitted the offense at Jalan Gong-Kemubu in Machang, Kelantan, about 6.40am on Sept 26, 2015.

The justices’ court in 2018 saw Atif as blameworthy of the offense and condemned him to the base two years’ prison and a further fine of RM5,000 under Section 41 of the Road Transport Act 1987.

He was out on RM5,000 bail forthcoming his enticement for the High Court which was permitted in 2019.

Prior, Abu Bakar told agent public investigator Nurul Farhana Khalid that an issue of law that was presented had effectively been replied and settled by a past Court of Appeal seat.

The inquiry was whether contributory carelessness by the expired (Tajul) was pertinent under the Road Transport Act.

“The arraignment can’t disguise this inquiry of law just to record an allure,” he said.

Legal counselor Raja Afiq Raja Azmi, who addressed Atif, presented that Tajul was careless as he had not worn an accident head protector.

He said his customer ought to be assumed the best about as there were two variants of the occasion.

“One adaptation is that the motorcyclist had given a sign to turn directly at an intersection while my customer’s proof is that there was none,” said the legal advisor who was helped by Wan Norfarhan Liyana Wan Baharuddin.