PETALING JAYA - When lawyer Ahmad Zaharil Muhaiyar helped a poor mother charged with shoplifting 25 years ago, little did he know that his gesture would one day bring two families of different religious backgrounds together. It was 1998 and Mr Ahmad Zaharil was a...
“She said that she had promised to get her son a pencil box if he became the top student in class,” Mr Ahmad Zaharil, now 57, recounted.
In an interview, Mr Ahmad Zaharil said: “I thought to myself then that if she was jailed for the offence, who would take care of her son? So, I had to intervene. He said together with the boy’s teacher, he quickly returned to the courtroom where he met the owner of the supermarket. “We handed over the money to the woman. She left after expressing her gratitude and I never saw her again,” said Mr Ahmad Zaharil, who specialises in cases related to narcotic crimes.In 2018, while going about his routine in court, he was approached by a man in his early 30s.
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