Nasroon Hafiz Ramli, 24, pleaded guilty to injuring his 21-year-old wife by punching her face and stepping on her body and face at the PPR Beringin here on Feb 23 at 8.30am.

Magistrate Mahyudin Mohmad Som ordered the father of two to serve the jail sentence from the date of the arrest on Feb 23.

The charge, under Section 323 of the Penal Code, read together with Section 326A of the same act, carries a prison sentence of up to two years.

Public prosecutor Nur Farah Adilah Noordin asked the court to impose a deterrent sentence.

Hafiz, who was not represented, appealed for a lighter sentence, saying he had repented.

According to the facts of the case, the victim, who wanted to cook, had asked her husband to look after their eight-month-old baby but he ignored her.

She told their eldest daughter to throw away the breakfast that she had bought earlier. It was then that Hafiz hit his wife.