Lawyer: Irresponsible people may come forward as false witnesses


KUALA LUMPUR: A lawyer has warned of a risk of false witnesses taking advantage of the witness identity protection under the proposed Section 265A of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

Datuk N. Sivananthan, 47, said although the basis of the proposed amendment was to encourage witnesses to come forward to give evidence, their anonymity must be used in the rarest of situation.

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