Che Omar Che Soh
In the supreme court decision of che omar che soh v public prosecutor 1988 2 mlj 55 the judge tun salleh abbas only said that malaysia follows the secular laws from the british and did not say that malaysia is a secular state.
Che omar che soh. Che omar bin che soh v public prosecutor wan jalil bin wan abdul rahman anor v public prosecutor sc kuala lumpur salleh abas lp wan suleiman seah hashim yeop a sani syed agil barakbah scjj supreme court criminal appeals nos 28 and 29 of 1986 16 december 1987 29 february 1988. These decades of hogwash by dap ends now. Separation between state and church. The supremacy of secular law in malaysia was upheld in 1988 in the supreme court case of che omar bin che soh vs public prosecutor in which the supreme court rejected the argument that the death penalty for drug trafficking was unconstitutional for offending the principles of islam he said.
So how could this case be used to prove something that was not even stated in the judgement. On che omar bin che soh v pp it is not surprising that mccbchst has chosen to provide selective quotation in this respect. The real interpretation of che soh che omar s judgement by ahmad faiz faiza dap has brings up che soh che omar s case once again to prove we are a secular state i e. But che omar bin che soh vs public prosecutor is no longer a good law because it was decided before the coming into effect of article 121 1a of the federal constitution.