CJ keeping mum on statutory rape cases

Chief Justice Arifin Zakaria has refused to criticism over a suggestion by a Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) for a Court of Appeal to examination its preference of setting in reserve a five-year prison tenure upon a national tenpin bowler Noor Afizal Azizan for raping an underaged girl.

azlanArifin pronounced which it could be sub-judice for him to criticism as well as which it is up to a courts to confirm if attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail can do so.

"If a AG wants to apply (for a review), we will see how. It's up to a justice to decide," he told a press during a Hari Raya open residence event held during a Palace of Justice today.

As for a interest by a AGC opposite a Penang Sessions Court's judgment upon a 22-year-old electrician who had committed statutory rape, Arifin additionally refused to comment, citing a same reason.

NONEYesterday, Abdul Gani pronounced a AGC was additionally scrutinising a Court of Appeal's Aug 8 preference to set in reserve a prison tenure imposed by a Melaka High Court upon Noor Afizal (right) for raping an underaged lady during a road house in Ayer Keroh, Melaka in 2009, after a charge appealed opposite a five-year bond of good poise meted out to him by a Melaka Sessions Court underneath Section 294 of a Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

The AGC has additionally filed an interest opposite a Penang Sessions Court's preference final Aug 28 to bound over Chuah Guan Jiu upon a RM25,000 bond of good poise for three years for committing statutory ra! pe.

Chuah was charged with raping a 12-year-old lady underneath Section 376 of a Penal Code as well as a preference was made based upon his immature age during a time of a corruption as well as since he was a first-time offender.
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