KUALA SELANGOR, Oct 6 — A witness told the Sessions Court today that he received a phone call about the discovery of an object resembling a pistol in Kampung Bukit Belimbing while he was on duty at the Kuala Selangor district police headquarters' (IPD) operations room, before lodging an initial report on the incident.
The first prosecution witness, Corporal Abdul Hadi Mohamed, 39, testifiying in the trial of Sharifah Faraha Syed Husin, 42, who is charged with possessing a CZ 75 P-01 CAL.9 LUGER pistol, said he received the call from Inspector Wan Ibrahim (full name not mentioned) of the Special Investigation Division (D9) of the Selangor police contingent headquarters at 9.10pm on March 29, 2024.
He was responding to a Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Muhammad Azamuddin Razak's query on whether he was on duty on the day of the incident, during the first day of Sharifah's trial before Judge Nurul Mardhiah Mohammed Redza.
She is accused of possessing a pistol believed to have been supplied to an Israeli national.
Meanwhile, when questioned by defence counsel Datuk Mohd Radzuan Ibrahim during cross-examination, Abdul Hadi agreed that the report was incomplete but said it was prepared based on the information he received from the phone call.
On April 8, 2024, Sharifah pleaded not guilty to a charge of possessing a CZ 75 P-01 CAL.9 LUGER pistol at a house in Kampung Bukit Belimbing, Kuala Selangor, at 8pm on March 29, 2024.
The charge was framed under Section 8 of the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act 1971 (Act 37), which carries a maximum imprisonment of 14 years and a minimum of six strokes of the cane upon conviction.
On June 5, 2025, her husband Abdul Azim Mohd Yasin, 44, pleaded guilty to his charge and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and six strokes of the cane by the same court.
According to the charge, he was accused of being with Sharifah in circumstances that gave reasonable grounds to believe that he knew she possessed the firearm at the same location, date, and time.
Abdul Azim was charged under Section 9 of the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act 1971, which provides for the same penalty.
Previously, on February 26, Israeli national Avitan Shalom, 39, was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Kajang Sessions Court after pleading guilty to possessing 200 bullets and six firearms.
He was accused of committing the offence in a hotel room at Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, between 6.46pm on March 26 and 6pm on March 28 last year.
The trial continues tomorrow.
