The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) today won an appeal against a High Court ruling that struck down a provision in the Syariah Criminal Procedure (Selangor) Enactment 2003 (SCPE) as being unconstitutional.

A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Azizah Nawawi, in a unanimous decision, ruled that Section 23 of the SCPE is not null and void.

“Section 23 of the SCPE allows the person arrested to be...