KUALA LUMPUR: The whipping meted out by the civil court is more severe than those carried out by syariah court but the uproar is unfairly targeted at the syariah court, says Department of Syariah Judiciary Malaysia syariah officer Hanifah Haydar Ali Tajuddin.
“There were cases of offenders being sentenced to caning in civil court but no one went to the prison to look at it like they did with whipping in the syariah cases.
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