FIVE MEN PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO ARMED GANG-ROBBERY CHARGE

Five men including a person with disabilities (PwD) pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to a charge of committing armed gang robbery at a businessman's house early this month.  M. Linggeshwaran, 23; P.S Tamil Kumaran, 38; G. Siva, 33; R. Thamilarasan, 33, and S. Nagen, 28, made the plea before Judge Sharifah Hascindie Syed Omar.  They were jointly charged with committing the robbery when armed with machetes at a property belonging to a 54-year-old man in Pandamaran, Port Klang at 6.16 am last Oct 3 and fled with prayer idols worth RM74,500,