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Kelantan to table amendment bill on hudud on Dec 29

KOTA BARU: Kelantan government today set Dec 29, for a special state assembly meeting to table an amendment to the Syariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993, or hudud.

  Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob said the amendment was part of the procedure by the state government to table a private member's bill in Parliament to seek approval for Kelantan to enforce hudud.

  "The amendment will involve strenghtening and improvisations on several existing provisions of the enactment," he told a press conference at Kota Darulnaim here.

  Ahmad said all state assemblymen should participate in the debate before passing the bill on the amendment.

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