PETALING JAYA: A printing firm supervisor was fined RM6,000 by the magistrates’ court docket right here at the moment for violating the Quran Printing Control and Licensing Board (LPPPQ) licence situations by permitting the binding of 2,540 copies of the Quran in a factory owned by a non-Muslim final yr.
Magistrate Nur Natasha Mohtarudin meted out the sentence to Idora Abdul Rashid, 42, and ordered her to serve six months in jail if she did not pay the effective.
She paid the effective.
Idora is alleged to have violated the licence situations set by the LPPPQ, which is underneath the house ministry, by allowing the binding of the Quran copies within the factory.
The offence was dedicated at a factory in Taman Perindustrian Bukit Serdang, Seri Kembangan, Selangor at 3pm on Sept 5, 2023.
The cost, framed underneath Section 5(7) of the Printing of Quranic Text Act 1986, carries a most effective of RM50,000 or imprisonment for as much as 5 years, if convicted.
The house ministry’s prosecuting officer Amin Azhar Qairil Yusoff appeared for the prosecution, whereas Idora was unrepresented.
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According to the details of the case, the authorities seized 2,540 copies of the Quran on account of non-compliance with the licence situations issued by LPPPQ, because the Quran manuscripts have been sure in a non-Muslim factory.
