JERUSALEM — At least six people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Hadera on Wednesday, Israeli authorities said.
“The terrorist has been neutralized,” police said in a statement.
“Four separate locations have been identified, resulting in six victims with stab wounds.”
The police did not immediately provide other details, but issued a brief video of the suspected attacker being apprehended.
Of the six people rushed to the hospital, at least two were in serious condition, according to medical officials.
Israel has been on high security alert since the Hamas assault a year ago sparked the war in Gaza, while a the conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon continues to escalate.
BEIRUT — Israeli bombardment on Wednesday killed a policeman in the south of Syria near the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, state media said, the day after a deadly air strike on the capital.
Israel has repeatedly struck Syria throughout the civil war that started in 2011, but it has ramped these up in recent weeks as it also pounds Lebanon.
Citing a police official, the official SANA news agency reported “the death of a security force member and wounding of another in an Israeli strike” on the outskirts of Quneitra city.
It comes after a strike in the Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh late Tuesday, that a war monitor said targeted a building used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The Syrian government said it killed seven civilians.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor on Wednesday reported a higher toll of nine civilians, including four children.
The Britain-based organization said four others were also killed, including two members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Last week, the Observatory said an Israeli strike on Mazzeh killed four people, including the son-in-law of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on south Beirut last month.
Israeli authorities rarely comment on individual strikes in Syria, but have repeatedly said they will not allow arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence.
Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have been among the Syrian government’s most important allies in the country’s more than decade-old civil war.
KOTA BHARU — Seorang remaja lelaki dikhuatiri lemas selepas mandi di pintu air Pangkal Kalong, Kok Lanas di sini, petang tadi.
Mangsa, Muhammad Aqif Aisar Azrie Faisal, 13, mandi di tempat kejadian bersama tiga lagi rakan sebelum hilang dipercayai lemas.
Komander Operasi Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat Ketereh, Pegawai Kanan Bomba II (PBK II) Hamdam Mamat berkata, pihaknya menerima panggilan berhubung kejadian jam 5.09 petang tadi.
Katanya, seramai sembilan anggota BBP Ketereh, enam anggota Pasukan Penyelamat Di Air (PPDA) Pengkalan Chepa dan dua anggota PPDA Machang bersama 14 anggota Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) Kok Lanas dan Ketereh menyertai operasi mencari dan menyelamat mangsa.
Katanya, jentera ‘Fire Rescue Tender’ (FRT), Unit Bantuan Perkhidmatan Kecemasan (EMRS) dan dua pacuan empat roda digerakkan ke lokasi.
Sehingga jam 7.30 malam, mangsa masih belum ditemui dan operasi mencari masih diteruskan meskipun dalam keadaan hujan dan cuaca gelap.
“Kita sudah melakukan pencarian di permukaan dan melakukan selaman dan akan teruskan lagi pencarian.
“Kedalaman sungai adalah dianggarkan enam meter,” katanya.
TEHRAN — All nine members of a family have been martyred in an Israeli strike targeting their apartment in the northern Gaza Strip, news media have reported.
The Israeli strike targeted the family’s apartment in the Shejaia neighborhood in northern Gaza, WAFA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent.
In a related development, Israeli fighter jets launched an attack against the Bureij refugee camp on Wednesday, killing four civilians.
Dozens of the civilians have been wounded and taken to the hospital, Palestinian media reported.
The Israeli attacks on the northern and central Gaza today have led to the martyrdom of at least 18 Palestinians.
Nearly 42,000 people have been killed in Gaza since last October when the Israeli regime launched a genocidal war against the coastal territory. More than 97,000 people have also been injured.
GAZA — At least eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting a hospital and a school in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources on Wednesday.
Palestinian paramedics reported that an Israeli aircraft struck the entrance of the Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least five people and injuring a number of others. All the wounded were transported to local hospitals.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated that its team transferred the bodies of three victims and 25 wounded people, including children, to Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital after the Israeli military targeted Al-Rafei School, which is currently sheltering displaced persons in Jabalia.
The Israel Defense Forces announced that its troops continue operations across the Gaza Strip, stating that they have killed numerous militants in close-quarters combat and aerial strikes, while also seizing weapons, including grenades and AK-47 rifles, and dismantling various infrastructure and rocket launch sites prepared for attacks on Israeli territory.
Israel has been conducting a large-scale offensive against Hamas in response to a Hamas attack along the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, which resulted in approximately 1,200 fatalities and around 250 hostages taken.
The ongoing Israeli assaults have raised the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip to 42,010, according to health authorities in Gaza on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the total number of injured individuals in the enclave has reached 97,720.
JERUSALEM — A rocket fired by Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon killed two Israeli civilians — a woman and a man — in northern Israel on Wednesday, Israeli authorities said.
Magen David Adom emergency health service reported that the victims were killed when a rocket struck the northern city of Kiryat Shmona.
The military said approximately 20 rockets were detected crossing from Lebanon, targeting the city.
Earlier on Wednesday, militants in Lebanon fired around 40 rockets at northern Israel’s Upper Galilee and Haifa Bay areas, injuring at least five people.
The Israeli military stated that “some of the projectiles were intercepted by the Israeli Air Force, while others landed in the area.”
Magen David Adom reported that rockets or shrapnel from interceptor missiles hit at least two locations in the Krayot, a cluster of suburbs north of Haifa.
Hezbollah has yet to comment on the two attacks in Israel.
TEMERLOH — Seorang gadis 20 tahun disedari hilang di hadapan rumahnya di Taman Temerloh Jaya di sini pada 6 Oktober lalu jam 11.15 malam.
Ketua Polis Daerah Temerloh, Asisten Komisioner, Mazlan Hassan berkata bapa gadis tersebut seorang pesara kerajaan melaporkan kehilangan anaknya pada 7 Oktober jam 3.15 pagi.
“Ayah gadis itu memaklumkan anak perempuannya, Nurul Aliya Zulkifli telah keluar membuang sampah kira-kira lima meter di hadapan rumah.
“Setelah agak lama bapanya mendapati anaknya tiada di hadapan rumah, dia mencari di hadapan rumah dan kawasan sekitar tetapi tidak bertemu anaknya,” katanya hari ini.
Ketika disedari hilang, gadis itu memakai blaus putih belang biru dan seluar hitam dan turut memakai sandal berwarna hitam warna putih.
Polis telah menjalankan pencarian sehingga sekarang dan masih belum menjumpai gadis berkenaan.
“Gadis tersebut setinggi 160 sentimeter (cm) dan berat 45 kilogram (kg) dan agak kurus serta berkulit kuning langsat. Sesiapa yang ada maklumat gadis itu boleh hubungi balai polis berhampiran,” katanya.
Ukraine’s army had withdrawn from the eastern town of Vugledar, above, handing Russia one of its most significant territorial advances in weeks. Above, Ukrainian servicemen drive in the Vugledar direction of the eastern Donetsk region on Oct. 8, 2024. (AFP)
MOSCOW — The Russian army said on Wednesday that it had shot down 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, nearly half of them over the Bryansk border region.
“Air defenses intercepted and destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones,” 24 of them over the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, the defense ministry said in a statement.
Around 13 drones were destroyed over the Azov Sea and the rest over regions either bordering or near Ukraine, it said.
Russia reports shooting down Ukrainian drones over its territory on a nearly daily basis.
Kyiv says it is carrying out the strikes, which often target energy sites, in response to Russian bombardments of its territory.
Kyiv has ramped up strikes targeting Russia’s energy sector in recent months, aiming to dent revenues used by Moscow to fund what the Kremlin calls its special military operation in Ukraine, now grinding through its third year.
SEOUL — North Korea said Wednesday it will permanently block its border with South Korea and boost its front-line defense posture to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and US forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to formally designate South Korea its principal enemy and codify new national borders.
While the moves were likely a pressure tactic, it’s unclear how they will affect ties with South Korea since cross-border travel and exchanges have been halted for years.
North Korea’s military said Wednesday it will “completely cut off roads and railways” linked to South Korea and “fortify the relevant areas of our side with strong defense structures,” according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
The North’s military called its steps a “self-defensive measure for inhibiting war and defending the security” of North Korea. It said that “the hostile forces are getting ever more reckless in their confrontational hysteria.” It cited what it called various war exercises in South Korea, the deployment of US strategic assets and its rivals’ harsh rhetoric.
South Korean officials earlier said North Korea had already been adding anti-tank barriers and reinforcing roads on its side of the border since April in a likely attempt to boost its front-line security posture and prevent its soldiers and citizens from defecting to South Korea.
KCNA earlier Wednesday said the Supreme People’s Assembly met for two days this week to amend the legal ages of North Koreans for working and participating in elections. But it didn’t say whether the meeting dealt with leader Kim Jong Un’s order in January to rewrite the constitution to remove the goal of a peaceful Korean unification, formally designate South Korea as the country’s “invariable principal enemy” and define the North’s sovereign, territorial sphere.
Some experts say North Korea might have delayed the constitutional revision but others speculated it amended the constitution without announcing it because of its sensitivity.
Kim’s order stunned many North Korea watchers because it was seen as breaking away with his predecessors’ long-cherished dreams of achieving a unified Korea on the North’s terms.
Experts say Kim likely aims to diminish South Korea’s voice in the regional nuclear standoff and seek direct dealings with the US They say Kim also likely hopes to diminish South Korean cultural influence and bolster his rule at home.
Children accompany armed gang members in a march in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May 10, 2024. (Reuters)
Haiti’s armed gangs are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks, a report by Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday, as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are sexually abused and forced into domestic work.
The group, which advocates for human rights globally, said it had spoken to six children recently involved with gangs, all of whom said they wanted to leave and had joined because they were hungry and gangs were often the only source of food, shelter or money.
Boys are often used as informants, trained to use weapons and ammunition, and deployed in clashes against the police, HRW said.
It cited the case of a boy called Michel, an orphan who was recruited six years ago when he was 8 and living on the streets and was given a loaded Kalashnikov.
Girls are raped and forced to cook and clean for gang members, the report said, and often discarded once they become pregnant.
Haiti’s powerful gangs have been expanding their influence in recent years while state institutions have been paralyzed by a lack of funds and political crises.
Gangs now control territory where 2.7 million people live, including half a million children.
As they have grown, the gangs have ramped up child recruitment, said HRW.
About a third of gang members are children, according to estimates by the United Nations, which has also warned of boys being used for killings and to attack institutions, and girls being forced into exploitative sexual relations and killed in broad daylight for refusing to do so.
HRW said the criminal groups are increasingly using popular social media apps to attract recruits.
The leader of the Village de Dieu gang, for instance, is a rapper and publishes well-polished music videos of his soldiers. The report said he has a specialized unit to train children how to handle weapons and set up checkpoints.
The UN approved Haiti’s request for a security mission to help the Caribbean country’s police fight the gangs a year ago, but so far the mission has only partially deployed.
HRW urged Haiti’s government and other countries to provide more resources for security forces, ensure children are able to eat and go to school, and provide rehabilitation for recruits.
BEIRUT — The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on different areas in Lebanon over the past 24 hours reached 36 while injuries stood at 150, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported on Tuesday night.
Six people were killed and eight others wounded in the Bekaa region, while in the Nabatieh governorate, there were 30 fatalities and 121 injuries, it said.
The ministry added that 20 people were wounded in Mount Lebanon, while one person was injured in the district of Baalbek Hermel.
The total number of fatalities in Lebanon since the onset of Israeli attacks has exceeded 2,100, with over 10,000 individuals injured, according to Lebanese authorities.
KHARTOUM — At least 20 people were killed and three others injured in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in North Kordofan State in western Sudan, the non-governmental Sudanese Doctors Network announced on Tuesday.
“20 people were killed and 3 others injured in an attack by the RSF on the Al-Dammokia village, some 30 km east of El-Obeid, the capital city of North Kordofan State,” the network said in a statement, noting that elderly people and children were among the victims.
The network didn’t release additional information, and the RSF has yet to comment on the attack.
Sudan has been embroiled in a violent conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF Since April 15, 2023.
The conflict has resulted in approximately 20,000 deaths, thousands of injuries, and the displacement of millions, according to most recent estimates by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
CAIRO — An Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Mezzah suburb west of the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven civilians and injuring 11 others, Syrian state media reported on Tuesday.
Preliminary reports said the seven civilians included women and children, state media reported citing a military source, adding it also caused “grave” material damage on private properties in surrounding areas.
As per the cited source, the airstrike was conducted through three missiles coming from the direction of the Golan heights.
State media earlier reported that Syria’s air defences had intercepted “hostile” targets in the vicinity of Damascus.
Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids since last year’s Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian group Hamas on Israeli territory that sparked the Gaza war.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON — TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social media platform of harming and failing to protect young people.
The lawsuits filed separately in New York, California, the District of Columbia and 11 other states, expand Chinese-owned TikTok’s legal fight with U.S. regulators, and seek new financial penalties against the company.
The states accuse TikTok of using intentionally addictive software designed to keep children watching as long and often as possible and misrepresenting its content moderation effectiveness.
“TikTok cultivates social media addiction to boost corporate profits,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. “TikTok intentionally targets children because they know kids do not yet have the defenses or capacity to create healthy boundaries around addictive content.”
TikTok seeks to maximize the amount of time users spend on the app in order to target them with ads, the states say.
“Young people are struggling with their mental health because of addictive social media platforms like TikTok,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James.
TikTok said on Tuesday that it strongly disagreed with the claims, “many of which we believe to be inaccurate and misleading,” and that it was disappointed the states chose to sue “rather than work with us on constructive solutions to industrywide challenges.”
TikTok provides safety features including default screentime limits and privacy defaults for minors under 16, the company said.
Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb alleged TikTok operates an unlicensed money transmission business through its live streaming and virtual currency features.
“TikTok’s platform is dangerous by design. It’s an intentionally addictive product that is designed to get young people addicted to their screens,” Schwalb said in an interview.
‘VIRTUAL STRIP CLUB WITH NO AGE RESTRICTIONS’
Washington’s lawsuit accused TikTok of facilitating sexual exploitation of underage users, saying TikTok’s live streaming and virtual currency “operate like a virtual strip club with no age restrictions.”
Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington state also sued on Tuesday.
In March 2022, eight states including California and Massachusetts, said they launched a nationwide probe of TikTok impacts on young people.
The U.S. Justice Department sued TikTok in August for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy on the app.
Other states previously sued TikTok for failing to protect children from harm, including Utah and Texas. TikTok on Monday rejected the allegations in a court filing.
TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance is battling a U.S. law that could ban the app in the United States.
PARIS — A son of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden has been deported from France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, and barred from returning after posting comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Binladin from France, and that Binladin had previously been deported. He gave no details about the timing of the deportation or where Binladin had been sent.
“Mr Binladin, who has lived in the Orne region for several years as the spouse of a British national, posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that glorified terrorism,” Retailleau said on X.
“The administrative ban ensures that Mr Binladin cannot return to France for any reason whatsoever.”
Binladin could not immediately be reached for comment.
According to local weekly newspaper Le Publicateur Libre, Binladin caught the attention of French authorities over a social media post on the birthday of his father, who was killed by U.S. forces in 2011. Reuters was not immediately able to locate the social media post.
The paper reported in July 2023 that police had searched for Binladen in the village of Domfort, Normandy.
KULAI — Polis menahan tujuh lelaki selepas disyaki terbabit memukul seorang lelaki lain di tepi jalan berhampiran Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Senai (LTAS) di sini.
Ketua Polis Daerah Kulai, Superintendan Tan Seng Lee, berkata suspek berusia 25 hingga 40 tahun ditahan dalam serbuan sekitar Skudai dan Johor Bahru, kira-kira 8 hingga 12.30 tengah malam tadi.
Siasatan awal mendapati kejadian berpunca selisih faham yang bermula hanya disebabkan perebutan tempat duduk di ruang pelepasan di Lapangan Terbang Miri, Sarawak.
“Kita berjaya membuat tangkapan selepas mengesan video dimuat naik pemilik akaun Facebook ‘This Is Johor’ jam 9.15 malam tadi yang memaparkan sekumpulan lelaki bertindak seperti samseng di tepi jalan dengan memukul seorang lelaki lain.
“Kita juga menerima laporan polis dibuat mangsa iaitu seorang lelaki tempatan berusia 39 tahun selepas kejadian itu. Mangsa turut cedera ringan, luka calar dan bengkak.
“Hasil siasatan, kejadian di hadapan sebuah stesen minyak berhampiran LTAS jam 1.30 tengah hari semalam.
“Mangsa dan suspek yang saling tidak mengenali mula berselisih faham kerana tegur-menegur antara satu sama lain ketika di Lapangan Terbang Miri,” katanya dalam kenyataan, hari ini.
Ketika tangkapan suspek warga tempatan berkenaan, polis turut merampas dua kenderaan iaitu Honda Accord dan Mazda 6 serta alat kawalan jauh, empat telefon bimbit dan dua batang rotan.
“Semua suspek kini ditahan reman empat hari bermula hari ini hingga Jumaat ini,” jelasnya.
Terdahulu, tular video berdurasi 17 saat memaparkan lapan lelaki sedang memukul seorang lelaki lain menggunakan batang dipercayai kayu di tepi jalan.
Turut kelihatan, mereka menendang mangsa yang berbaju dan berseluar pendek warna hitam itu berkali-kali.
Kejadian yang dirakam pengguna jalan raya itu dipercayai memperlahankan trafik memandangkan beberapa kereta dipercayai dinaiki suspek berhenti di jalan.
MUAR — Seorang remaja berusia 15 tahun didakwa di Mahkamah Majistret di sini hari ini atas tiga pertuduhan merogol budak perempuan sebaya sejak Mei lalu selepas menyelinap masuk ke rumah keluarga mangsa.
Tertuduh dihadapkan di hadapan Majistret Suzana Mokhtar dan didakwa mengikut Seksyen 376 (1) Kanun Keseksaan yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun dan sebatan bagi setiap pertuduhan jika sabit kesalahan.
Dia didakwa merogol remaja perempuan berusia 15 tahun itu di sebuah rumah di daerah ini, jam 9 pagi, 25 September lalu.
Bagi pertuduhan kedua dan ketiga, remaja lelaki berkenaan dituduh melakukan jenayah itu terhadap mangsa sama pada jam 8.30 pagi pada Mei dan Jun tahun ini, dengan ketiga-tiga kejadian di tempat sama.
Berdasarkan laporan dibuat bapa mangsa di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Muar pada 25 September lalu, kejadian ketika ahli keluarga remaja perempuan itu tiada di rumah kerana keluar bekerja.
Tertuduh dilaporkan memasuki rumah mangsa secara bersembunyi dan kemudian merogolnya sebelum perbuatan itu terbongkar apabila dia terserempak bapa remaja perempuan terbabit.
Dia yang ditahan pada hari sama laporan polis dibuat, tidak diwakili peguam pada prosiding hari ini, manakala pendakwaan dikendalikan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Nur Aqilah Mohd Rofaie.
Remaja itu mengaku tidak bersalah sebelum mahkamah memerintahkan ikat jamin RM5,000 bagi ketiga-tiga pertuduhan dan menetapkan 19 November depan untuk sebutan kes, serahan dokumen dan juga lantikan peguam.
Tertuduh gagal membayar ikat jamin ditetapkan lalu dibawa ke Pusat Koreksional Muar untuk tahanan sementara.
TOKYO — Mycoplasma pneumonia cases are rapidly increasing in Japan, with the weekly number of patients per medical institution reaching a record high, local media reported.
The number of mycoplasma pneumonia patients has steadily risen in Japan since June. For the week ending Sept. 29, an average of 1.64 cases per medical institution was reported, marking the highest figure since data collection began in 1999, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing health officials.
Mycoplasma pneumonia is a bacterial respiratory infection that spreads through droplets and physical contact, causing symptoms like fever, fatigue, and persistent coughing.
Children are particularly susceptible to infection. In severe cases, patients may develop pneumonia or weakness due to fever, potentially requiring hospitalization. In rare instances, complications such as encephalitis, a brain inflammation, can occur.
As mycoplasma pneumonia typically spikes between fall and winter, Japan’s health officials anticipate a further rise in cases.
Bekas peguam, N. Pathmanabhan bersama tertuduh lain, T Thilaiyalaga dan R Matan selepas perbicaraan kes bunuh Jutawan Kosmetik, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya (gambar kecil) di Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam. – Foto fail NSTP/22 Januari 2013
PUTRAJAYA — Bekas peguam, N Pathmanabhan dan dua lagi kekal dihukum gantung sampai mati atas kesalahan membunuh jutawan kosmetik, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya dan tiga lagi pada 2010.
Keputusan sebulat suara itu dibuat panel tiga hakim mahkamah persekutuan dipengerusikan Ketua Hakim Negara, Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat bersama Datuk Nordin Hassan, Datuk Abu Bakar Jais.
Dalam penghakiman itu, Tengku Maimun yang membacakan keputusan berkata panel sebulat suara menolak permohonan dan hukuman mati terhadap mereka dikekalkan.
Jutawan kosmetik, Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, dibunuh dengan kejam bersama-sama tiga rakan yang lain di Morib, Selangor pada September 2010. Mayat dibuang dan dibakar di ladang ternakan ayam dekat Tanjung Layang, Morib.
Dalam keputusan sebulat suara, panel tiga hakim diketuai Ketua Hakim Negara Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat memutuskan hukuman mati dikekalkan kepada dua pemohon iaitu Pathmanabhan, 55, dan T Thilaiyalagan, 33.
“Permohonan ditolak, hukuman gantung dikekalkan,” katanya yang bersidang bersama Datuk Nordin Hassan dan Datuk Abu Bakar Jais.
Dua pemohon itu memohon hukuman mati itu diganti dengan hukuman penjara berikutan Akta Pemansuhan Hukuman Mati Mandatori 2023 yang berkuat kuasa pada 4 Julai 2023.
Di bawah undang-undang baharu itu, hakim mempunyai budi bicara untuk mengenakan hukuman mati atau pemenjaraan selama tempoh tidak kurang 30 tahun tetapi tidak melebihi 40 tahun, dan jika tidak dijatuhi hukuman mati, hendaklah juga dikenakan sebatan tidak kurang 12 kali bagi pesalah lelaki berusia di bawah 50 tahun.
Bagaimanapun dalam prosiding hari ini, seorang lagi pemohon R Kathavarayan, 44, yang pada mulanya menfailkan permohonan semakan yang sama menarik balik permohonan itu hari ini.
Justeru, hukuman mati terhadap bekas pekerja ladang itu kekal seperti diputuskan Mahkamah Persekutuan pada 16 Mac 2017.
Dalam prosiding hari ini, pendakwaan dikendalikan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Datuk Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar dan Tetralina Ahmed Fauzi manakala peguam Manjeet Singh Dhillon mewakili Pathmanabhan serta Thilaiyalagan diwakili peguam Amer Hamzah Arshad.
Pada 23 Mei 2013, Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam menjatuhi semua perayu hukuman mati selepas didapati bersalah membunuh Sosilawati, 47; pegawai bank Noorhisham Mohamad, 38; peguam Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32; dan pembantu Sosilawati, Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44.
Mereka didapati bersalah melakukan kesalahan itu di Lot 2001, Jalan Tanjong Layang, Tanjung Sepat, di Banting, Selangor antara jam 8.30 dan 9.45 malam pada 30 Ogos 2010.
Pada 4 Disember 2015, Pathmanabhan, R Matan, 33, Thilaiyalagan dan Kathavarayan gagal dalam rayuan mereka di Mahkamah Rayuan.
Dua tahun kemudian, iaitu 16 Mac 2017, Pathmanabhan, Thilaiyalagan, dan Kathavarayan kekal ke tali gantung, selepas sekali lagi rayuan mereka ditolak Mahkamah Persekutuan.
Bagaimanapun, Matan bernasib baik apabila rayuan pekerja ladang itu dibenarkan dan dia dilepas dan dibebaskan oleh lima panel hakim yang bersidang kerana kekurangan bukti berhubung kes pembunuhan itu.
