IT engineer fined RM2,000 for hurting restaurant employee

2026-03-17 - 14:11

Nalinee Kothandabani paid the RM2,000 fine after pleading guilty at the Petaling Jaya magistrates’ court for voluntarily causing hurt to a worker at a fast-food outlet in Seri Kembangan. PETALING JAYA: The magistrates’ court here fined an IT engineer RM2,000 after she changed her plea and admitted to voluntarily causing hurt to an employee of a fast-food outlet in Serdang Raya, Sri Kembangan, last year. Nalinee Kothandabani, 41, had pleaded not guilty in December to hurting Rani Arumugam, 46, after punching her at a McDonald’s outlet at a Shell station on Dec 8. Magistrate Amira Sariaty Zainal handed down the sentence today and ordered Nalinee to serve six months’ imprisonment in default of payment. The accused paid the fine. The charge was framed under Section 323 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment, a fine, or both, upon conviction. The prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutor Syed Ahmed Khabir Abdul Rahman, while lawyer Devaneson Ganesan represented Nalinee, and lawyer Lavendran Nair held a watching brief for the victim.