The Shah Alam Syariah High Court today dismissed Anwar Ibrahim's qazaf (bearing false witness) application against senior lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah as it ruled it did not have jurisdiction to entertain applications related to sodomy.

Judge Mohamed Fouzi Mokhtar said this was because the Selangor state did not consider sodomy an offence similar to zina.

He said this was despite the acceptance by a majority of Islamic scholars that sodomy could be included under zina.