| Izah Azahari |
FOLLOWING an alert found on the social application via WhatsApp related to ‘teknik perompak dengan melemparkan telur ayam ke cermin kereta semasa memandu’ (robbery technique by throwing chicken eggs onto a vehichle’s windshield while driving), the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) denied making a public statement.
The RBPF advised the public to not be involved in producing or disseminating false and baseless information, and reminds the public to not easily believe or feel panicked towards suspicious information that has no confirmed legitimacy.
Such offences can be taken action on under the Chapter 148 of the Public Order Act Section 34, that is whomever that uses oral or written or uses any way to disseminate wrong reports or makes wrong notices that can cause disruption in the public order can be imprisoned up to three years and fined up to BND3,000.
Also in the Chapter 24 of the Sedition Act Section 4(1) which is whomever carries out or tries to carry out or prepare or abet to carry out sedition; uses works that are in the form of sedition; produces, disseminates, sells, offers to sell, disseminate or reproduce any sedition; as well as any information in the form of sedition, except if they are unaware that it is a form of sedition.
Those that are found to commit these offences will be imprisoned up to two years and fined BND5,000 for the first offence, and for the same offence that is carried out again will be imprisoned for three years and fined, and any form of seditious news will be confiscated and destroyed.