Aipda Suhendri Police Defendant In Drug Case Sentenced Free By Medan District Court Judge

Chief Judge Ahmad Sumardi (center) read out the verdict which acquitted Aipda Suhendri in a narcotics case, at the Medan District Court, North Sumatra, Wednesday (4/10/2023). (ANTARA/M Sahbainy Nasution)

The panel of judges at the Medan District Court, North Sumatra, sentenced Aipda Suhendri to acquittal in cases of methamphetamine and ecstasy pills.

"To try the defendant Suhendri to be acquitted of the indictment of the Public Prosecutor (JPU)," said Chief Judge Ahmad Sumardi when reading the verdict at the Medan District Court as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, October 4.

The panel of judges requested that the defendant's dignity be restored and released the defendant from his confinement.

After reading the verdict, the panel of judges gave the Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Medan District Attorney, legal counsel for the defendant and the defendant to accept or appeal the decision.

Separately, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Medan Trian Adhitya Izmail said his party would file an appeal against the decision.

Meanwhile, the defendant's lawyer Suhendri, Ilwa Pulita, welcomed the verdict read out by the panel of judges to release his client. "Yes, it is in accordance with our defense," he said.

Previously, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Medan demanded that the defendant Aipda Suhendri, a police officer in the case of methamphetamine and ecstasy pills, be in prison for 6.5 years, and a fine of Rp800 million, subsidiary to three months in prison.

The public prosecutor assessed that the defendant violated the first alternative indictment, Article 112 paragraph 2 of Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning narcotics, namely without rights and against the law possessing or controlling class I narcotics of methamphetamine weighing 0.2 grams, 71, 5 green ecstasy pills, 17 blue ecstasy pills and 3.82 grams of ecstasy pills.