KUANTAN, Nov 13 – The caning sentence imposed on part-time model Sari Dewi Shukarno still has not been carried out following syubahah (doubt) in the implementation.
Pahang Religious Affairs Committee Chairman Datuk Mohamad Sahfri Ab Aziz said they must be careful when carrying out the punishement, especially on female offenders.
“In our 52 years of independence, we have not had a female caner,” he said replying to a supplementary question from Syed Mohammed Tuan Lonnik (PAS-Beserah) regarding obstruction in carrying out the sentence on Kartika at the 12th Pahang state assembly, here today.
However, Mohamad Sahfri said, a similar punishment for the same offence had been carried out on an Indonesian man, who received six strokes of the cane at the Penor Prison, here, yesterday.
He said Pahang was among the states that provided for fines, imprisonment and caning for the offence of consuming alcohol.
Kartika, 32, was fined RM5,000 and sentenced to be caned six times by the Kuantan Syariah High Court on July 20 after she confessed to violating Islamic laws by drinking beer in a hotel lobby in Cherating on July 11 last year.
Replying to Syed Mohammed’s original question about the caning sentence not following Islamic law, Mohamad Sahfri said it complied with regulations approved by the Pahang state assembly and jurisdiction allocated by the Federal Constitution through the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) 1965.
Although the Islamic laws fixed between 40 to 80 lashes for alcohol consumption, which is recognised as a hudud offence, he said, the Syariah Court had no jurisdiction to impose hudud sentences. – Bernama
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