Businessman fined RM2,000 for assault on petrol station attendant

TAPAH: A hot-tempered businessman was fined RM2,000, in default five months' jail, by the magistrate's court here today for voluntarily causing hurt on a petrol station attendant.
Magistrate Mohd Harith Mohd Mazlan meted out the fine on Muhammad Nuralif Shaufik Ahmad Fauzi, 25, who pleaded guilty to the charge.
He was charged with causing hurt on Muhammad Ridwan Abdullah, 24, at a Petronas petrol station in Sungkai near here at 12.45 pm last Oct 6.
In mitigation, Muhammad Nuralif Shaufi's lawyer, S. Kavitha, said her client, now remorse, was an only child and was supporting his parents, who were not working.
Deputy public prosecutor Fatin Farahiyah Nadzri prosecuted. — Bernama