PAS yet to decide on hudud Bill, sec-gen says
(MMO) – PAS has yet to decide whether to proceed with tabling its Private Member’s Bill on hudud in the coming Parliament session as the matter will depend on the outcome of the injunction petition against the Islamic penal code filed earlier this year by a group of “concerned citizens”, the party’s secretary-general said today.
Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan said that in order to have the Bill included in Parliament’s order papers, the party would have to resubmit its motion for a third time ahead of October’s Dewan Rakyat session.
“What we tried to do in (the) last two sittings was to submit a private member’s bill to propose amendments to the Act. If we want to proceed, which we haven’t decided, we will have to resubmit.
“We wait for outcome of the injunction,” he told Malay Mail Online over the phone.
To implement hudud in Kelantan, PAS is seeking to amend the Shariah Court Act (Criminal Jurisdiction) 1965 or Act 355, which currently only allows the Shariah courts to mete out punishments limited to RM3,000 fine, five years’ jail and six strokes of caning.
Without the amendments, the courts cannot issue punishments prescribed under hudud, which offer harsher penalties than those currently listed under the federal law.
