00:01A man who drove against traffic and killed two teenagers in a 2021 federal highway crash
00:07was sentenced to nine years jail today after the Shah Alam High Court reduced his murder charges to culpable homicide.
00:15Justice Bupinder Singh said the prosecution, which called 14 witnesses, had not proven the ingredients of murder against K. Devaswin
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00:25Bupinder amended the charge to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304, Subsection B of the Penal Code,
00:34to which Devaswin pleaded guilty.
00:36The court also imposed a fine of RM30,000 for each death, bringing the total to RM60,000.
00:44The jail terms are to run concurrently from the date of his arrest.
00:48Devaswin was charged in September 2021 with the murder of Hafiz Shamir Zul Asri, 19, and Nur Afiqa Abdul Karim,
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00:57The teenagers died when the car they were traveling in was hit by a pickup truck driven against traffic at
01:04kilometer 8.6 of the federal highway at about 1.50 a.m. on September 12, 2021.
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