KUCHING (April 30): A construction worker was fined RM2,000 in default three months’ jail after he pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court here today to assaulting his wife.

Abdul Rahim Raini, 35, made the plea before Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi after the charge under Section 323 of the Penal Code read together with Section 326A of the same Code was read to him.