Four men plead not guilty to assaulting bomoh

Four men who were recorded on video, which had gone viral on social media, assaulting a bomoh, were charged in the Magistrate’s Court in Kota Bharu today with voluntarily causing hurt on the traditional healer.

However, all of them - Mohd Syamsul Izwan Midin, 33, Idris Ishak, 42, Muhammad Firdaus Mohd Adnan, 33, and Mohd Eric Mohd Ramli, 35 - who are also traditional healers, pleaded not guilty to the charge before magistrate Mohd Izdham Naim Che Ani.

They were charged with causing hurt on...