ENACTMENT No. 3 Of 1989 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 1988
PART VII - GENERAL
Section 202. Compensation for giving in charge groundlessly.
(1) Whenever any person causes a Penyelia Agama or a Police Officer to arrest another person if it appears to the Kadi who takes cognisance of the case that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest the Kadi may award such compensation, not exceeding twenty five ringgit, to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to each person so arrested for his loss of time and any expenses incurred by him in the matter as the Kadi shall think fit.
(2) Such compensation shall be no bar to an action for false imprisonment.