KUALA LUMPUR: A Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department (Jawi) enforcement chief testified in a magistrate's court here that a warrant of arrest was not needed for an arrestable offence.
The department's enforcement division assistant director Akmal Nadzim Abdullah, 45, said he and a Jawi operations enforcement officer explained this to the accused, Siti Kasim, during a raid conducted at a transgender beauty pageant event at the Renaissance Hotel in 2016.
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