Bung Mokhtar gets jail
Syariah Judge Wan Mahyuddin Wan Muhammad today sentenced Kinabatangan Member of Parliament Datuk Bung Moktar Radin to one month jail sentence for committing polygamy without the consent of court.
Written by Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — Syariah Judge Wan Mahyuddin Wan Muhammad today sentenced Kinabatangan Member of Parliament Datuk Bung Moktar Radin to one month jail sentence for committing polygamy without the consent of court.
Wan Mahyuddin said that court has sentence a severe punishment so that that the public will respect the institution of marriage and a lesson for those that do not respect the Islamic legal system.
Bung Moktar and Zizie Izette pleaded guilty at the Gombak Timur Lower Syariah Court to the charge of committing polygamy without the consent of court and marriage registrar on April 20.
