BANGI: The Bandar Baru Bangi Sessions Court here today sentenced a man to three months' jail and a fine of RM5,000 after he pleaded guilty to making an obscene post that insulted the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim. Judge Firdaus Md Isa imposed the sentence on Mohd Hafiz Haron, 42, as the person subject to the summons (OKS) and ordered him to serve the sentence starting today. The court also ordered the father of three to be jailed for four months if he fails to pay the fine. Mohd Hafiz is charged with knowingly making and initiating the transmission of extremely offensive comments with the intention of offending any person via the TikTok application through the account @muhammad.bin.abdu969 at 7.30 am, 11 Sept 2025. The delivery in question was seen by a complainant at a house in Taman Pelangi Semenyih 2, here at 10pm, the same day. The charge was made under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 [Act 588] and is punishable under Section 233(3) of the same act, carrying a maximum fine of RM500,000 or imprisonment for a maximum of two years or both and may be further fined RM5,000 for each day the offence continues after conviction. Based on the facts of the case, a complainant who felt angry and hurt by seeing the post, filed a police report before being followed by three other individuals. The evidence shows that OKS was fully aware and knew that the messages sent using his mobile phone were extremely obscene and insulting to Sultan Ibrahim. Earlier, Deputy Public Prosecutor Nurul Atiqah Mohamad Alias ​​requested a suitable sentence as a lesson to OKS. Mohd Hafiz, who was not represented by a lawyer, appealed for a lighter sentence because he only worked in the village and had to support his elderly mother and three children. On Sept 13, 2025, police arrested a man to assist in investigations into the spread of a video via the TikTok application that contained elements of sedition and insulted the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. A check found that the man had a past record involving three criminal cases and one narcotics-related case. -- BERNAMA

Man jailed for three months, fined RM5,000 for sending obscene message insulting the Agong

BANGI: The Bandar Baru Bangi Sessions Court here today sentenced a man to three months’ jail and a fine of RM5,000 after he pleaded guilty to making an obscene post that insulted the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim.

Judge Firdaus Md Isa imposed the sentence on Mohd Hafiz Haron, 42, as the person subject to the summons (OKS) and ordered him to serve the sentence starting today.

The court also ordered the father of three to be jailed for four months if he fails to pay the fine.

Mohd Hafiz is charged with knowingly making and initiating the transmission of extremely offensive comments with the intention of offending any person via the TikTok application through the account @muhammad.bin.abdu969 at 7.30 am, 11 Sept 2025.

The delivery in question was seen by a complainant at a house in Taman Pelangi Semenyih 2, here at 10pm, the same day.

The charge was made under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 [Act 588] and is punishable under Section 233(3) of the same act, carrying a maximum fine of RM500,000 or imprisonment for a maximum of two years or both and may be further fined RM5,000 for each day the offence continues after conviction.

Based on the facts of the case, a complainant who felt angry and hurt by seeing the post, filed a police report before being followed by three other individuals.

The evidence shows that OKS was fully aware and knew that the messages sent using his mobile phone were extremely obscene and insulting to Sultan Ibrahim.

Earlier, Deputy Public Prosecutor Nurul Atiqah Mohamad Alias ​​requested a suitable sentence as a lesson to OKS.

Mohd Hafiz, who was not represented by a lawyer, appealed for a lighter sentence because he only worked in the village and had to support his elderly mother and three children.

On Sept 13, 2025, police arrested a man to assist in investigations into the spread of a video via the TikTok application that contained elements of sedition and insulted the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

A check found that the man had a past record involving three criminal cases and one narcotics-related case.

— BERNAMA

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