‘Unnatural sex’ law unconstitutional


KUALA LUMPUR: The Selangor state legislature has no power to enact law which criminalises unnatural sex as its authority is limited to purely religious offences.

Based on this point, a Federal Court panel led by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat unanimously ruled that Section 28 of

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