Five charged with causing friends death in hotel swimming pool

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Five people were charged in the Magistrate’s Court in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan on Friday (July 19) with causing the death of their friend in a swimming pool a week earlier.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3hdd4fb3  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Five people were charged in the magistrate's court in Port Dickson on Friday with causing

00:07the death of their friend in a swimming pool a week earlier.

00:1036-year-old D. Maharaj, 34-year-old B. Shanmugasirvai, 42-year-old Faizatun Firus Arifin, 31-year-old

00:19R. Praveena and 34-year-old S. Suvipra pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Uthman Abdul

00:26Ghani.

00:27They were jointly accused of causing the death of 38-year-old S. Pravinthan in a hotel swimming

00:32pool in Port Dickson at 2 a.m. on July 13.

00:36The charge, under Section 304A of the Penal Code, read together with Section 34, carries

00:43a maximum jail term of two years, or a fine, or both.

00:48The court granted bail of 4,000 ringgit each with one surety.

00:52In the same court, the five individuals also pleaded not guilty to a second charge of inserting

00:57drugs into their bodies, an offense allegedly committed at the Port Dickson Police Headquarters

01:02between 12.20 a.m. and 1 a.m. on July 14.

01:06The court allowed them bail of 2,000 ringgit each and fixed September 3 for mention of

01:12both cases.

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