ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 2002
SHARIAH CRIMINAL OFFENCE (HUDUD AND QISAS)
TERENGGANU ENACTMENT 1423H/2002M


PART III - QAZAF



Section 7. Qazaf.
Allah SWT said

Means:

"And those who launch a charge against chaste woman .and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations) - Flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors".
(The Holy Quran, Surah Al-Nur, 24:4)
(1) Qazaf is all offence of making an accusation of zina, being an accusation incapable of being proved by four male witnesses, against a Muslim who is mukallaf and known to be chaste.

(2) It is also an offence of qazaf for any person to make a statement by expressly saying that a particular individual has committed zina or by impliedly saying that a particular individual is not the parent of not the offspring of another particular individual.

(3) The statement under subsection (2) shall be deemed to be qazaf unless proved by four male witnesses; and if unproved the person who makes the statement shall be guilty of an offence of qazaf; but where such statement is proved, the person against whom the statement is made shall be guilty of an offence of zina.

(4) The statement under subsection (2) shall be deemed to be unproved, if one or more of the four witnesses called to give evidence to support the statement decline to testify or do testify but their testimonies are against such statement and in that event each of the witnesses who gives evidence in support of the statement shall be deemed to have committed an offence of qazaf.




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