PUTRAJAYA: The punishment for offences under the syariah law may be reviewed to encourage the use of caning - in an effort to check the rise of such offences, Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom said.
The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said the common perception was that sentences meted out by syariah courts were relatively low because most involved fines.
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