KUCHING, April 9 -- A 23-year-old man was fined RM3,000 in default 10 months' jail by the Magistrates' Court here for threatening another man by hurling a petrol bomb at the latter's house.

Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nazwa Radzali convicted Sulaiman Mohamat on his own guilty plea to a charge under Section 506 of the Penal Code read together with Section 34 of the same Code.

The Section carries a jail term of up to seven years, or a fine, or both.

Sulaiman and another man, who is still at large, committed the offence at a house in Kampung Demak Baru Phase 2, Jalan Bako at 5.35am on March 21.

Based on the facts of the case, the victim was alerted by the sound of a house alarm and upon checking discovered a plastic bottle containing petrol n...