A former judge and a police officer were charged at the Ipoh Sessions Court today with soliciting and accepting an RM4,000 bribe to release a man from a khalwat case in 2019.

Former Syariah Court judge Burhanuddin Ismi Adam, 43, and lance corporal Muhamad Hamri Ayob, 34, pleaded not guilty after the charges were read out separately before Judge Ahmad Kamar Jamaludin...