Chief Magistrate Pengiran Hajah Norismayanti binti Pengiran Haji Ismail yesterday delivered a decisive interpretation of Section 34, Chapter 148 of the Public Order Act (POA) in a case against a local woman charged with sounding a false alarm.
Hajah Faizah binti Haji Abdul Gapar is charged with disseminating of a false statement likely to cause public alarm.
Parties focused on whether mens rea, or the mental element of a crime, extends to the knowledge of the falsity of the statement.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin