JUDGMENTBY: ABDUL MALIK ISHAK JC

This is an appeal by the public prosecutor against the sentence passed by the learned magistrate, Magistrates Court, Selama, Perak, on the respondent who was charged as follows:

Bahawa kamu pada 25 September 1986 jam lebih kurang 9.15 pagi di rumah

no 31, Peringkat 1 Felda Ijok Redang Panjang Selama, dalam daerah

Selama, dalam Negeri Perak, telah didapati memiliki 0.83g dadah

berbahaya iaitu heroin dan oleh yang demikian itu kamu telah melakukan

suatu kesalahan di bawah s 12(2) dan boleh dihukum di bawah s 12(3)

Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952.

The respondent pleaded guilty to the charge and was duly convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment to be followed by one year of police supervision.

The facts adduced by the prosecution and admitted by the respondent are briefly that at about 9.15am on 25 September 1986, a party of police officers headed by Insp Abu Bakar raided house no 31 Peringkat 1, Felda Ijok, Redang Panjang, Selama and arrested the respondent who was, at the material time, alone and seated on the floor of his bedroom filling powder, suspected to be drugs, into a plastic straw. The police seized the p