High Court overturns light sentence, man jailed for statutory rape


GEORGE TOWN, November nineteen An electrician, who was only firm over by a Sessions Court for raping a 12-year-old girl, was sent to prison after a High Court overturned a light judgment which had sparked public outrage.
High Court judge Datuk Seri Zakaria Sam(picture)sentenced Chuah Guan Jiu, 22, to 5 years' as well as 5 years' jail, to be served concurrently, for dual counts of raping a lady final year.
Chuah was initially firm over for 3 years for RM25,000 after a Sessions Court convicted him of raping his afterwards 12-year-old partner during his flat in Farlim here.
Chuah committed a offences a little time in in between 7am as well as 1pm upon Jul eighteen final year as well as again a little time in in between 2.25pm as well as 2.45pm a next day.
It was announced final month which a government has given a "green light" to a Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) to amend a Penal Code to improved protect adolescent girls from orthodox rape.
Minister in Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz had told Parliament which territory 376 of a Penal Code, which covers a orthodox rape of minors, will be altered to prohibit legal discretion as well as extenuating circumstances in a sentencing for first-time offenders.
"The government has given a immature light for a AGC to take evident movement for Penal Code territory 376 to be nice to nullify a use of territory 294 of a Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).
"This is because a series of cases involving this crime is too tall as well as women underneath a age of sixteen are unprotected as well as open to rape with no protection underneath a law," a de facto law apportion had said, adding which there have been 5,976 cases of orthodox rape recorded given 2007 until today.
The Padang Rengas MP a! dded a a mendment was necessary as there were already opposing opinions upon "extenuating circumstances" in in between a AGC as well as a judiciary.
"There is already differing interpretations of 'extenuating circumstances', as authorised underneath territory 294 of a CPC, as well as we fear which a decision of dual courts in this make a difference will set dominance for others," Nazri said.
The apportion was referring to a cases of former inhabitant bowler Noor Afizal Azizan as well as Chuah, who were respectively firm over for 5 years as well as 3 years upon RM25,000 good behaviour holds after being found guilty of orthodox rape.
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