A two-judge panel made the decision after finding no evidence to connect the possession of the drug with the accused – the 30-year-old singer; her husband Affendi Ahmad, 35; Eridieka Noor, 33; Alif Deraman, 33; Nur Aida Mamat, 33; and Zuhaira Nasrin, 26.

The court also found the CCTV footage from a hotel in Sungai Golok, here, failed to show that the six had brought the drugs into the rooms.

“On the contrary, there were three other individuals who brought the drugs into the rooms of the six accused,” the judges said when reading their decision.

The court had set today for a decision after hearing testimonies from prosecution witnesses throughout the three-day trial last month.

The six were previously sentenced to six months in jail and fined RM526 (4,000 baht) after pleading guilty to another charge of consuming the yaba pills.

However, they were exempted from paying the fine after serving four months in jail and demonstrating good behaviour throughout their detention at Narathiwat prison.

Their lawyer, Sufian Abdul Aziz, told reporters that the prosecution could file an appeal against the decision within a month.

“At the moment, all six of my clients must remain in prison while waiting for the prosecution to file an appeal.

“If there is no appeal, they will be allowed to return to Malaysia,” he said.

It was previously reported that six Malaysians, including a popular female dikir barat singer famous for the song Bea Sobar Bea, had been arrested in a raid at a hotel in Golok on Nov 1 last year for allegedly possessing more than 6,000 psychotropic pills.