The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a man to two and a half years imprisonment for stealing ten ‘Enchanter’ brand body lotion bottles from a shop in Malé. The sentence was delivered after he confessed to committing the crime.
The case, sent for prosecution in December 2013, was scheduled five times before the perpetrator was brought before the court yesterday in police custody.
The man was earlier sentenced for one year banishment in 2013 for shoplifting and was sentenced for six year imprisonment in 2004 on drug charges.
At retail price ten bottles of the lotion in question would cost around MVR320 (US$20).
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2 years jail for theft of $20/- shampoo bottles.
What do you call 'businessmen', who buy $1/- flip flops and sell them to $200/-.? Day light robbers! But. They go free.
$2 million drug dealers go free. Premeditated murderers go free.
It's a matter of who you know, not the crime you commit, determines you end of in heaven or jail.
No no no. Wrong. You should steal above 1 million Rf worth of money/goods. You'll get a free ticket to a government position and pension. Remember: Poor thieves get punished, while rich thieves rule in this 100% islamic country.
Makes sense, dear president Yameen just let everyone out of prison so they need to fill it up again.