GEORGE TOWN: Hudud laws will boost, and not deter, crimes because of the high standard of proof that would impede the prosecution from establishing its case, DAP national chairman Karpal Singh said here today.He said the rigid requirement to have four witnesses under hudud laws meant that the case must be proven with certainty.
He said this was contrary to the current criminal legal system which only required the prosecution to prove a case beyond reasonable doubt.
Moreover, he added that under the hudud legal system, the four witnesses must be upright and good practising Muslims.
He said the prosecution would face a thorny task to produce four such witnesses to prove cases like adultery, zina, and khalwat or close proximity.
“Criminals would prefer hudud laws because it will be impossible for the prosecution to prove its case.
“Hudud will indeed set criminals to roam freely and crime will increase,” Karpal told reporters during his visit to his Bukit Gelugor parliamentary constituency.
Currently, the country is being governed by uniformed criminal laws for all enacted by Parliament.
The state governments, however, have the power to enact Muslim family or personal syariah laws.
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