Trial for ex-technician’s alleged sexual acts
KUCHING: A former technician has been ordered by the Session Court here to stand trial on four charges of engaging in unnatural sexual acts with a 15-year-old boy. The alleged incident took place in a rented room in Matang four years ago. Judge Maris Agan made the decision after the prosecution successfully presented a strong […]
Pakistani charged with sodomising boy
BUTTERWORTH: A man was charged in the Sessions Court here today with sodomising an eight-year-old boy, last month. However, no plea was recorded from the accused, a Pakistani contract labourer, as he did not understand the charge that was read in Bahasa Malaysia to him before Judge Noor Aini Yusof. The accused was charged with […]
State governments urged to review provisions of syariah laws
KUALA LUMPUR: The Syariah Lawyers Association (PGSM) urged the state governments to review all existing provisions of the syariah criminal laws to ensure that they could no longer be challenged by certain quarters. Its president Musa Awang, in a statement today, said apart from the state governments, the authorities also needed to take a drastic and holistic action to study and review the provisions. He was commenting on […]
Law on ‘unnatural sex’ void
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court here today declared as void and unconstitutional a provision in the Selangor syariah law criminalising unnatural sexual intercourse. A nine-member bench led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat held that Section 28 of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995 related to a matter that falls under the Federal list in […]
