KUALA LUMPUR - Former 'Rockanova' reality show participant, Zarith Sofia Mohd Yasin - who claimed that she thought a sunbear she was keeping in her apartment in Desa Petaling was a puppy - was fined RM27,000 (S$8936) by the Sessions Court here

Zarith Sofia, 28, was fined RM20,000, in lieu six months imprisonment, for the charge of keeping the sun bear (Helarctos Malayanus) and another RM7,000, in lieu four months in jail, for confining the animal.